 “Here, we do everything“: the “reality of the work” of beneficiary attendants in intermediate housing facilities in Quebec 
This article, based on research conducted in 2018, looks at the care work of healthcare attendants in two intermediate resources in Montreal. It is particularly interested in the links between the paid care work activity, the difficulties experienced in the work and the modalities of the sexual division of labor. It aims to document the attendants’ experiences and identify certain characteristic from a feminist perspective of work and its divisions. The article is divided into four parts. It first provides a portrait of the sociohistoric transformations that affect this healthcare sector, followed by a brief review of the literature. The third part presents the main results of the research, and finally, the last part discusses these results in the light of a feminist perspective on the transversality of social divisions of labor. The purpose of the article is to shed light on certain dynamics that contribute to the precariousness of the working conditions of attendants as women workers.