Free to Choose? The Gendered Impacts of Flexible Working Hours in Brazil

Autor:	Lygia Sabbag Fares, Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Philosophy
Zdroj:	Review of Radical Political Economics. 55:166-186
ISSN:	1552-8502 0486-6134
DOI:	10.1177/04866134221089993
Popis:	This article examines the effects of the flexibilization of working time in terms of gender segmentation in the labor market. It proposes and analyzes eight categories of women’s participation in the labor market and the effects of flexibilization on each of them. By using household survey data and case studies, the research shows that some forms of flexibilization reinforce the sexual division of labor, for example, low pay for precarious, part-time home-based work, and low social status that perpetuate caregiving roles for women in the private realm. Concurrently, forms of flexibilization associated with better pay do not consider the existing sexual division of labor, in that they demand women’s total availability for work, thus impacting their careers and lives negatively. JEL Classification: J01, J16, D63
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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