The article takes a feminist approach to gerontology. It examines the stereotypes of ageism that derive from the relationship between culture and old age. It establishes the requirements for a type of research that reflects women's own experience of growing older, as well as the social construction of values related to women's old age. It focuses on the sociocultural features of this population, which faces old age with certain limitations, but also with unparalleled assets.
Our research has been aimed at understanding the experience, practice, and sexual life in a group of Spanish women over 50 years of age. We studied a sample of 729 women between 50 and 80 years old. Our results provide qualitative and quantitative information and important insights about the sexual life of Spanish women and identify differences in the experience and reality of sexual life after the age of 70. The status of having or lacking a partner, and a personal interest in emotional relationships and sexual practices, are elements that determine the possibility of enjoying a satisfying postmenopausal sexuality.
La socialización diferencial conlleva que mujeres y hombres elijan ocupaciones y programas educativos diferentes y que, por tanto, sus opciones vitales resulten sesgadas por el género. La presente investigación explora los itinerarios vitales y profesionales que han seguido un grupo de mujeres y hombres desde que finalizaron sus estudios universitarios y analiza la correspondencia entre los proyectos iniciales y las metas alcanzadas. El procedimiento seguido se encuadra dentro de los métodos de investigación cualitativa y feminista. Los resultados evidencian que el avance que experimentan las mujeres en la vida pública no tiene un correlato en una mayor implicación de los hombres en la vida privada; en el itinerario profesional se muestran distancias entre ambos sexos.
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