Abstract

BRUNET ICART, Ignasi  and  SANTAMARIA VELASCO, Carlos A.. Feminist economics and sexual division of labor. Culturales [online]. 2016, vol.4, n.1, pp.61-86. ISSN 2448-539X.

This article aims to expose the critique by feminist economics about the conventional view of economic activity, for which there is no other job to consider more than the paid for, which is bought and sold for a salary. Feminist economics emphasizes that this limited approach about labor excludes women and a gender dimension. This feminine invisibility is not only quantitative, that is, it is not only that female participation rates in the formal labor market are low. The reason is rather about approach: the analysis concerning labor is constructed from a neutral perspective, so that work and women appear as two mutually exclusive concepts. Therefore, feminist economics retrieves invisible feminine elements, particularly domestic work and care work.

Keywords : reconciliation; gender; reproduction and care work.

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