El tiempo de trabajo y su distribución por sexos en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca

Abstract

The sexual division of work provoke a women weak participation in the paid work witch against point is the high representation in the not remunerate work. These two characteristics are evolving. By one way, in the sense of a women bigger participation in the paid work, like it is demonstrated in the increasing rate of women activity. By the other way, in the bigger assumption of homework by men. The assumption of homework by men, besides the weak rhythm of increasing, is leaving in women hands the most constrictive work.

The incorporation of women to the paid work has been produce in the context of a profound market crisis with the develop of the precarious situation and the massive unemployment. Women suffer the work consequences in the terms of rate of unemployment, time of contract, partial-time and less salary. The equality in the work require that women can escape from the part of a familiar work, that correspond to men, and the society have to assume jointly the care and the well-being that today is assume by women in the private sphere.