Gender and Job. Case: Buenos Aires - Argentine

The great increase of the participation of the womeneconomic necessity for the existence of low salaries
in the work market that took place in the 60 inwith the consequent devaluation for the inflation,
developed countries and in Argentine approximately innecessity to have economic independence and to
the 80, it implied an interest to relate family andalso be supplying in the home. It is important to see
work. To be single or married, not to have children orthe topic of the gender lists because a bigger
to have one or more, today it doesn't change theacceptance of the women that work outside of the
decision of the women to leave or to stop to leavehome exists and of those women that have children.
to work, like it happened in last times. In the family,Many families are observed in the area of Buenos
at least from the c. XIX the males was assigned theAires with a high proportion where the male works
responsibility of maintaining economically to the familyas the woman.
while the women took care to their children and theIn the case of the women, two types of workers
home. This division of the work is linked with thecan be identified: those that a time prolonged in its
representations about the masculinity: power,works remain and those that are in short and
strength, intelligence, activity and of the femininity:irregular times, these last they generally have little
softness, affectivity, passivity, weakness, amongeducational formation - primary school - although here
other, this doesn't only establish differences butseems more marked the gender list, that is to say,
rather they make think of a hierarchical situation, onethe male as main supplier or only economic supplier.
is superior and the other inferior, because this divisionThe studies seem to reveal that although the woman
of the work for gender influences in the workworks on the outside of her home is not equal to
positions that are offered to the women and menthat diminishes their tasks in the home, the analyses
respectively. In the case of Argentine, thedemonstrated that the men carry out tasks in their
socio-economic crisis and politics from beginnings ofhomes for their wives' order and if employees
the 80 has had and it continues having deep effectspossess for the tasks of the house they seem the
on the family, the work and the ways of eachconflicts that could exist to diminish derived of the
member's life.assignments of each family member's lists.
The current studies reveal the following : decrease ofIt seems that in Buenos Aires (Argentine) the gender
the family number, postponement of the age torelationships are in a stage of since transition the
marry, loss of popularity of the civil marriage,male it is not considered as somebody to who it is
discharge rate of divorces and separations, even thatnecessary to request permission, to assist him and to
choose not to have children, alone women thattake care, but the woman helps the male in
choose to have children and to raise them alone,moments of labor difficulty, however, a hierarchy
families formed by the mother and their childrenexists, because they are not equitable the tasks
without father , separate parents that share therelated to the family: the salaries, the care of the
holding of their children, homes where the woman ischildren and the tasks of the home. The changes in
the supplying economic, high percentage of children inthe gender relationships in Buenos Aires seem to be
the poorest areas and of more vulnerability, amongslow and they take place for a series of factors:
others.economic, cultural, social, among other, for that
Already nobody doubt that in the Argentina there isreason, it turns out to be a necessary condition that
more and more women that work outside of thefrom the institutions a bigger degree of equality is
house, increasing the figures starting from thepromoted.
decade of the 90, the reasons can be for example: