The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Life Women Workers

COVID-19 gives a significant impact on female workers. Their rights that have been marginalized have been increasingly degraded during the PSBB (large-scale social restrictions). It becomes a double impact, socially or economically, because female workers as housewives are forced to bear the burden of families, and at the same time they have to be a mother to teach their children because of school-from-home programme. Some of them experience a more severe impact that the husband who loses his job, which means that the wife takes over the burden of the whole family. However, society (especially women) has social capital that is able to help them economically and psychologically in continuing their activities during pandemic. Using qualitative methods and social capital theory, we find that the existence of social gatherings of women can support their economy, or simply sharing with their friends has a direct impact on women’s mental health.