Una sociedad tradicional para jóvenes modernas. Juventud rural y asociacionismo femenino en la España democrática

Abstract

Despite the legal developments achieved after the establishment of the Spanish Democracy, the gender-based discrimination, the lack of opportunities for training, the unemployment or the difficulty to reconcile work and family life, continued to affect the collective of women workers in a negative way. The above-mentioned grievances were intensified in the rural areas. After the arrival of democracy, the models of traditional relationship that had prevailed in the rural society, in which the role of the woman was secondary and passive, were increasingly faced with a world marked by patterns of urban modernity, giving way, from the seventies onwards, to the outcrop of a potentially contentious situation. It was then when the rural women, especially the youngest, emerged dressed in a leading role that historically had been denied.