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Title: | Gender asymmetries in family and work spheres: strategies and conflicts of qualified women working in portuguese state administration |
Authors: | Alexandre, Helena |
Keywords: | Família Family Trabalho Work Género Gender Igualdade de Oportunidades Equal opportunities Administração pública Public administration Portugal |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Abstract: | In Portugal, feminine activity rate of working mother is high but remains structural asymmetries of responsibilities between women and men in familiar spheres. Based on quantitative and
qualitative data results are presented that show that, in spite of a global feminization rate of 58,6%, women workers in State Administration remains with major responsibilities in familiar/private lives than men. Women in technical and leadership functions have the same patterns of familiar and domestic responsibilities but different patterns of work-time. Women in technical functions tend to have a strategy of work-family time balance, despite less career
opportunities, while women in leadership functions adopt a supremacy of wok-time, just as men. Nevertheless, both women, in technical and leadership functions, feel a permanent conflict between career and family responsibilities, which is not felt by men.
Gender roles define dominant models of work and family organisation which conduct to different professional strategies and career opportunities. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10782/560 |
Appears in Collections: | A5 - Apresentações / Comunicações
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