In September 1973, following months of political tensions and social unrest in Chile, the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a US-backed coup d'etat carried out the Chilean military forces under Augusto Pinochet in response to Allende's leftist reforms and the perceived threat of communism [REF].
Especially affected by the implementation of neoliberal policies were women from poor and working-class households, many of whom were left without a source of income due to widespread unemployment and political disappearances, and were thus forced to seek work outside the home for the first time [REF].