The aim of this article is to analyze the difficulties in professionalizing the long-term care system in Spain. Since 2006, the new Spanish law has recognized care as a subjective right, and regulations are being designed to create a framework for its professionalization. Nowadays, family remains the most important group of providers who care for their elders, and women remain the main informal caregivers. Why do families resist using public long-term care services and professional carers included in the new law? The hypothesis highlights sociocultural factors as an obstacle to professionalization of long-term care services in addition to political and economic factors. The results show qualitative data about expectations, preferences, and discourses that women caregivers have in relation to their responsibility. The empirical material includes 25 interviews with different profiles of caregivers and six focus groups with family caregivers. The article suggests that the Spanish ideal of care is a problem for the professionalization of services because the family remains as the main provider of care-without specific skills, knowledge, and abilities.
El artículo pretende dar cuenta, en primer lugar, de las dificultades que acompañan a las políticas de conciliación vigentes en España. Unas dificultades que se ponen de manifiesto a través del análisis de los discursos que los principales actores sociales de la negociación colectiva (empresarios y sindicatos) plantean sobre el tema. En segundo lugar, el artículo explora la existencia de las denominadas políticas de tiempo como trasfondo a las posibles pistas explicativas de tales dificultades, al tiempo que las propone como alternativas a las actuales políticas de conciliación. Palabras clave: conciliación, negociación colectiva, políticas de conciliación, políticas laborales, políticas de tiempo.
The masculine role is built primarily on the basis of men's position as breadwinners providing income for the home through paid work. However, it has been suggested that economic and employment crises and the transformation of production systems that have been underway since the 1970s have diminished the value of work as an identitarian element. The aim of this article is to analyze the extent to which employment crises question the model of hegemonic masculinity. Through the comparative analysis of the career paths of men and women, we show that work still forms the core of male identity, though the persistence of hegemonic masculinity is influenced by social class and generation.
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