Il virus, il genere, la cura: una rivoluzione ai tempi del CoViD-19?

The unexpected and sudden lockdown experience has favoured the emer- gence in public discourse of certain issues, such as care, which have long been known in feminist debates on gender inequalities. Starting from a clarification of the ambi- guities that, albeit unintentionally, the expression “care work” presents, this contri- bution argues in favour of the intervention of public institutions and the law, in order to overcome the asymmetries in the distribution of tasks that still characterize intra- family relations.