The impact of the crisis and austerity on low educated working women: The cases of Spain and Portugal
| Autor: | Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, Isabel Tavora |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
low educated women Earnings media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050209 industrial relations Female employment ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/03/01 Context (language use) Global inequalities 0506 political science Gender Studies crisis Precarity Austerity Political science 0502 economics and business Unemployment 050602 political science & public administration Household income Demographic economics Welfare gender equality media_common Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Tavora, I & Rodríguez-Modroño, P 2018, ' The impact of the crisis and austerity on low educated working women: the cases of Spain and Portugal ', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 621-636 . https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12238 |
| ISSN: | 0968-6673 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/gwao.12238 |
| Popis: | This article investigates the impact of the recent economic crisis and associated austerity agenda on working low educated women in Portugal and Spain. It draws firstly on a comparative analysis of Eurostat Labour Force Survey data, recent reform to the labour market and care policy; secondly, on qualitative research exploring changes in low educated women's employment, family arrangements and values. The findings reveal that in both countries low educated women maintained their labour market attachment but faced increased risks of labour market exclusion, precarity and low pay. However, the weight of women's household income contributions increased in the context of male unemployment and earnings insecurity, which reinforced women's work attachment. Moreover, employment appeared critical to women's identity and associated with egalitarian values. Despite greater protection of equality policies and welfare support for dual‐earner families in Portugal, the evidence suggests a negative impact of austerity on work–family reconciliation opportunities for low educated women in both countries. |
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