The present work starts from the understanding that violence against women does not appear
with the pandemic of COVID-19. As oriented by the World Health Organization, the causes of
violence against women have historical roots, that is, it is linked to historical and social factors,
such as gender inequality, economic, structural machismo, among others. Therefore, this paper
is justified by the need to expand studies that seek to discuss the increase of violence due to
isolation, because there was a significant increase in family interaction, which associated with
the symptoms of stress caused by the pandemic condition has potentiated an old health and
social problem: violence against women. It is on this fact that this research proposes to focus.
How has the pandemic aggravated the situation of women who suffer domestic violence? What
are the actions of the public system regarding this problem? Thus, we included white literature
materials, indexed in the defined databases, published in Portuguese, and responding to the
guiding issue, published in the years 2020 and 2021. In the search for the key words "violence",
"pandemic" and "women", a total of 4,630 results were found. When applying the selection
criteria, 18 studies were chosen. After reading them, 9 were excluded, since they did not deal
with violence against women. Thus, the final sample of the literature review consisted of 9
articles. To deepen the research, it was used as a base of information the scientific productions
referring to the theme only within the rules of scientific and ethical research approved by the
periodicals and research journals, such as: Virtual Health Library (BVS), Latin American and
Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library (Scielo),
Electronic Periodicals in Psychology (Pepsic) and Google Scholar. The study ended up showing
the existence of few articles and/or research aimed at understanding how the pandemic ended
up worsening the data related to domestic violence against women, which can be explained by
the fact that it is a recent phenomenon, however, it is also necessary to analyze the lack of
discussions around these issues, which points to the invisibilization of violence against women
in Brazil. Finally, it is important to emphasize that only after an institutional change that
subverts the current division of powers will it be possible to think about any kind of change and
reduction of data related to domestic violence against women.
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