Diverging Destinies? A Long-term Outlook into Women’s Work and Gender Roles in It-aly and Spain

Núria Sánchez-Mira; Camilla Gaiaschi; Valeria Insarauto; Joan M. Verd

doi:10.5565/rev/aiet.122

¿Destinos divergentes? Una perspectiva a largo plazo sobre el trabajo de las mujeres y los roles de género en Italia y España

Autores/as

Núria Sánchez-Mira Institute of Sociology, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-0149
Camilla Gaiaschi Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Lecce (Italy) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3768-9529
Valeria Insarauto Centre for Decent Work, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield (UK) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7837-493X
Joan M. Verd Department of Sociology. Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT), Institut d’Estudis del Treball (IET), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8636-3659

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Resumen

Este artículo analiza cómo las transformaciones sociales y económicas de las dos últimas décadas han configurado la posición de las mujeres en las esferas laboral y familiar en Italia y España. Aunque suele considerarse que ambos países corresponden al perfil de países del Sur de Europa, los datos analizados muestran características significativamente distintas. Adoptando una perspectiva a largo plazo, analizamos los patrones de cambio de los indicadores del mercado laboral y las actitudes en cuanto a los roles de género durante los periodos de crecimiento económico, recesión y recuperación. Ello permite identificar las implicaciones de estos cambios para los modelos de integración socioeconómica de las mujeres y las cuestiones de igualdad de género en ambos países. Los hallazgos revelan que las tendencias divergentes en Italia y España han colocado a estos dos países en posiciones claramente diferentes. Mientras que Italia parece seguir una trayectoria de continuidad, sin cambios notables en la integración femenina en el mercado laboral, España ha experimentado un alejamiento fundamental de las características típicas del modelo del Sur de Europa. En este contexto, la recesión económica de 2008 ha actuado como un catalizador para el cambio en los roles laborales y familiares de las mujeres.

Palabras clave

Desigualdades de género, Ocupación femenina, Trabajo a tiempo parcial, Actitudes respecto a los roles de género, Sur de Europa

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Biografía del autor/a

Núria Sánchez-Mira, Institute of Sociology, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Núria Sánchez-Mira is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, specialized in the sociology of work, gender and the family. Her current work explores the reconfiguration of gender inequalities in the face of major socioeconomic transformations, with a particular emphasis on crises, digitalization, and the shifting temporalities of work and everyday life. She also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Swiss Journal of Sociology and the Springer Book Series Life Course Research and Social Policies.

Camilla Gaiaschi, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Lecce (Italy)

Camilla Gaiaschi is a Senior Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. Her research interests focus on gender inequalities in the labour market, especially in scientific professions and academia, university transformations and academic precarious work, gender in science, feminist epistemology and theories, gender-oriented welfare policies. She has published in several national and international journals including Gender, Work and Organization and Social Forces.

Valeria Insarauto, Centre for Decent Work, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield (UK)

Valeria Insarauto is a Lecturer in Work and Employment in the Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, where she is also a member of the Centre for Decent Work. Her research interests focus on gendered patterns of socio-economic vulnerability among marginal workers; the work-family interface, including the ways it shapes gender roles and attitudes via patterns of occupational sex segregation; the intertwining of discriminations and sexual harassment across occupational and workplace contexts. She is a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society, and of Papers. Revista de Sociología.

Joan M. Verd, Department of Sociology. Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT), Institut d’Estudis del Treball (IET), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Joan M. Verd is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is currently coordinator of the Master Degree in Social Policy, Employment and Welfare at the UAB, director of the Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) and a member of the Institute for Labour Studies (IET). His research interests focus on Sociology of Labour (labour market trajectories, social capital and employment, youth and the labour market) and Research Methods (mixed methods, social network analysis, biographical-narrative analysis, computer assisted qualitative data analysis).