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Este trabajo analiza cómo la crisis junto con las medidas de austeridad y de ajuste estructural están transformando las condiciones de vida y trabajo de las mujeres, las estrategias familiares y las relaciones de género en Andalucía, como ejemplo de las regiones de la Europa meridional. A partir del análisis estadístico y la realización de entrevistas a 66 mujeres empleadas en ocupaciones poco cualificadas con bajos salarios se profundiza en los desafíos que enfrentan las mujeres trabajadoras con la crisis y las políticas de austeridad.
An emerging body of research about the impact of the recession and austerity on women recognized but did not examine the potential different impact of the crisis and austerity reforms on different groups of women, particularly how it affected the labour supply, employment attachment, patterns and experience of low educated women (e.g. Bettio et al., 2013; Karamessini and Rubery, 2014). Yet this is an important question. The policy responses at the European and national level consisted mostly of measures to cut public spending and to increase labour market flexibility, targeting welfare programmes, public sector employment and pay, employment protection legislation and wage setting institutions. Low educated women are more vulnerable to job insecurity and low pay, and on the other hand their employment participation is more likely to be influenced by welfare measures supportive of female employment and so more likely to be affected if these change.
This paper focuses on the impact of the crisis and the associated austerity measures on the
