Resumen de From words to actions: Maternity and work protection, a view from Venezuelan legislation

Elisa M. Teixeira Villamediana, Estela Hernández Runque

• The value of caregiver has been attributed to women due to their reproductive social role; motherhood therefore carries a social value that is sometimes confronted with productive life. Currently, there are policies to protect maternity at work worldwide by promoting equality of employment and salary, generating opportunities for working women and protecting them from working conditions that may negatively affect their pregnancy and motherhood and even from discrimination due to maternity, however its coverage and scope is very diverse, responding to economic and political interests, which has caused pregnancy or the possibility of pregnancy to become the most frequent form of discrimination against women in the workplace. throughout the world, generating a significant psychosocial risk.  The objective of the research was to analyze the protection of maternity and work from Venezuelan legislation