Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Ladies, ladies, women ... Notes

The International Day of Working Women wanted to recommend some books we've reviewed in our magazine , but also wanted to remember some of the statistics that between yesterday and today have been picking up in the headlines: English Three out of four believe that women do not have the same employment opportunities as men / 67% of companies not develop specific activities to promote women to management positions / The wage gap is triggered when women start having children ... And they say that it is all done. As Natasha Walter says in his essay Living Dolls, "without a deep economic and political change, what we see when we look is not about equality we were looking for, is a revolution stalled.


The economic crisis is the excuse of these two economists and disseminators ( Lina Gálvez and Juan Torres ) to discuss the invisibility of women in the economic analysis. In effort to shed light on the reasons for exclusion of this particular social group, both authors have developed a test for four hands, after an introduction macroeconomic, delves into the history of our country, with special emphasis in previous crises, the incorporation segregated women into the workforce and patriarchy as a brake Joint development. With a family model "based on the division of labor that made the husband the breadwinner and the woman a housewife" by inheritance, and a financial crisis that has taken household indebtedness to critical limits are reached the clear conclusion that the latter affects more women than men. Simply put the glass on the double female labor-employment and home-in the underdevelopment of the Law Unit or the imbalance between salaries of men and women performing the same task. However, this work also focuses on the alternatives, passing a new economic model, overcoming patriarchy and rearrange the scene international. It is not utopia, but common sense.


Virginia Nicholson us in this historic trial to women over the lost generation of the century, secondary victim of the effects of the Great War. Educated women to be wives and mothers who had to face the social ostracism to the evidence that there were no men for all. With careful and meticulous style, this great-niece of Virginia Woolf has worked to collect the stories, with names of some of the most formidable British women born in the late nineteenth century. Of them were said to lead a "courageous and something strange ", but so far nobody had cared for their needs, their frustrations or desires How to live with a bachelor imposed when you belong to a generation that sees marriage as a right? A right, on the other hand, was taken from them. This paper sheds some light on a time and a situation that affected millions of women in the Europe of the early twentieth century. The efforts of these women by addressing gender programming and face a world that did not want them are at least moving, women learned to survive and succeed from the bachelor, a story that ends with a reflection by the author of a generation that paved the way for those who came later.

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