Género con clase: la conciliación desigual de la vida laboral y familiar

Mercedes Alcañiz

Gender with class: the unequal conciliation between labor and family life

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Mercedes Alcañiz Universitat Jaume I. Castellón

Keywords:

Gender, social class, work-life balance, inequality

Abstract

Women incorporation into labour market transformed the sex-segregation of work marked by patriarchy which assigned men to the public work environment and domestic sphere for women. Access to employment was carried out from a social background and with a particular studies, keeping in mind that when women comes into labour market it is done with a gender identity socialized in female principles related with care and to be for the others. The worklife-balance and family life refer how to organize the performance of both activities and how does it resolve through the ussage of differents strategies. The main goal in this article is analise the different strategies of work-life-balance and family life used by women of different social background. The methodology used in this investigation is qualitative, using a semistructured interview to a structural sample of urban women, mothers and workers today in the labor market.

Author Biography

Mercedes Alcañiz, Universitat Jaume I. Castellón

Profesora titular de Sociología y directora de la Unitat d’Igualtat de la Universitat Jaume I. Sus principales líneas de investigación son el cambio social, la desigualdad y la conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar. Entre sus últimas publicaciones destacan: Cambios y continuidades en las mujeres. Un análisis sociológico, Barcelona, Icaria (2011); “Conciliación entre la vida laboral y familiar ¿Cuestión de género o cuestión de mujeres?”, en Género y desigualdades en Iberoamérica, Mnemosyn, Buenos Aires (2012); “Estrategias de conciliación y segmentación social: la doble desigualdad”; Sociologia. Problemas e práticas, 73. Lisboa (Portugal) (2013) y La conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar en la Universitat Jaume I, Publicaciones de la Universitat Jaume I. Castellón (2014).

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Published

2015-01-01

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Alcañiz, M. (2015). Gender with class: the unequal conciliation between labor and family life. Spanish Journal of Sociology, (23). Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/res/article/view/65362

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No. 23 (2015): Sumario Número 23

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