**Abstract**

This article deals with the importance of reflecting on the experience of working women based on an analysis of the gender social order. It identifies the effects of simultaneously assuming domestic and work roles to make visible the emotional implications that affect women's health and way of life. Although it could be said that the female population has achieved significant conquests regarding their collective rights, in everyday life, the old and the new order coexist in relation to society's expectations of them. The work is the result of qualitative research applied to the University of Cuenca teachers, where the gender gaps in the academic career are identified, as well as the limitations for personal and professional development throughout their academic experience. This reality is reproduced in all work environments, negatively affecting the construction of women's autonomy as social subjects, and arises from the double working day that the female population assumes, which in turn benefits the current neoliberal economic model.

**Keywords:** gender, social order, health effects, working women, sacrificial logic
