This article will carry out a study of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dynamics of the capitalist economic model from a gender perspective, based on the study of the Spanish case. For this purpose, a response will be given to the approach which affirms that the current external shock is a window of opportunity for the arrival of a structural change in the institutions and political environments 1 . What if confirmed would lead to a new economic paradigm or sub-paradigm, whose scope could disrupt current social relations, governed by a patriarchal order. In addition, to address this study, the approach that considers economics as a discipline interrelated with the other social sciences in a natural-historical process will be adopted. From a vision close to the conception of the Humanist Economy disclosed by Sampedro, and far from economism. What makes more sense given the transversal nature of pandemics, due to the interdependence between economic, health, political,...