Employment policies to reinforce precariousness and the sexual division of labor: the role of technical personnel
Abstract
Active employment policies (SAPs) are specific tools of socio-labour policies whose purpose is to intervene in the employment market. The reasoning is to make it easier for those seeking employment to find it. The current configuration of these policies, which is mostly based on program projects with a fixed duration and finalist actions in the hands of local entities, is carried out by technical personnel. Especially those in a highly feminized professional specialty and whom has clear career paths characterized by precariousness. Therefore, a research with qualitative methodology has been carried out through semi-structured interviews with technical personnel who develop employment policies, as well as with several policymakers. The findings obtained will allow us to affirm that SAPs are configured as an efficient social control mechanism over the sexual division of labour system. For it uses technical personnel as sources tools of information in order to legitimize precariousness and gender segregation in employment.
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