Uma análise de género da Grande Recessão e do “austericídio” em Espanha

Abstract

This paper analyses the consequences of the latest recession and austerity measures for the working and living conditions of women and men in Spain, as well as the extent to which gender and other related inequalities are being modified or aggravated. Women are taking on additional responsibilities in terms of unpaid care work due to welfare cuts and privatization, while still facing discrimination in the labour market and in accessing resources and decision -making centres. This refamiliarization of care, together with increasing job insecurity, could have a major negative impact on the well -being of women and their present and future opportunities, which may endanger the fragile gains achieved in terms of gender equality.

Gendering the crisis: austerity and the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil

“…Governance reforms are often harder to oppose and overturn (Bohoslavsky & Rulli, 2020 ; Elomäki, 2019 ; Girón & Correa, 2016 ; MacLeavy, 2011 ; Murphy, 2015 ; Rubio-Marín, 2016 ; Sanders et al, 2019 ; Tepe-Belfrage & Steans, 2016 ) Social reproduction Austerity relies on shifting public provision of reproductive work to the private sphere. Pension cuts and postponing retirement age are likely to increase women’s family workload by reducing the availability of grandparents for childcare (Daskalaki et al, 2020 ; Gálvez & Rodríguez-Modroño, 2016 ; Power & Hall, 2018 ; Tarrant, 2018 ) Gender-based violence Reductions to welfare provisions and entitlements impact women's equality and safety (Sanders-McDonagh et al, 2016 ) …”

“…The term refers to responsibility, stringency, moral and even religious sentiments that guide good governance of public affairs, in order to maintain an allegedly balanced budget (Konzelmann, 2014 ). The concept further serves to invoke a sense of guilt that is passed on to society (Gálvez & Rodríguez-Modroño, 2016 ). Above and beyond such rhetoric and lexical choices, austerity involves a reduction in public spending and in the role of the State as the driver of economic growth and promoter of social well-being (Deleide & Mazzucato, 2019 ; Oliveira, 2020 ).…”

The impact of the crisis and austerity on low educated working women: The cases of Spain and Portugal

“…Where the pre‐crisis attachment to employment is lower, women's employment position may be more fragile (Rubery, ). ‘Added worker effects’, of women increasing their labour market participation in response to male unemployment, were noticeable in Spain during the crisis (Addabbo, Rodríguez‐Modroño & Gálvez, ; Bettio & Verashchagina, ; Gálvez & Rodríguez‐Modroño, ). However, the likelihood of these ‘added’ women workers withdrawing from the labour market when the circumstances change again depends on how far their employment integration has become associated with changes in the household economy, gender roles and social norms (Rubery, ).…”

Moving beyond dichotomies? The Collaborative Economy scene in Andalusia and the role of public actors in shaping it

“…They are affecting labour conditions, accelerating the phenomenon of real wage stagnation, job insecurity and job destruction, contributing to the demolition of basic welfare structures (Cheng, 2016b; De Grave, 2014; Richardson, 2015), and even increasing the ecological and carbon footprint (Schor, 2014). The ripple effects should be taken into consideration when analysing the impacts of CE, which include very clear gendered implications, especially within the context of recession and the imposition of austerity measures (Bettio et al, 2012; Gálvez & Rodríguez-Modroño, 2016). In fact, evidence shows that platforms can also reproduce class, educational, gender and racial biases and hierarchies (Barral & Barral, 2015; del Moral-Espín & Pais, in press; Frenken & Schor, 2017).…”