Double Working Day in Female Higher Education Teachers in Mexico City

María Del Carmen López García

doi:10.3844/jssp.2017.229.232

Abstract

Nowadays, women are fully integrated to all the productive sectors of life. However, women continue to be the only responsible ones for housework and reproductive work. This paper analyzes the perception of women University professors with a double workday in Mexico City. We use the Participatory Action Research methodology. The diagnosis results show that these women perceive their conflict situation as natural, but changing.

Highlights

In the 19th century, during the industrialization process, work and family spaces were separated, as well as tasks, based on gender; women were assigned the obligation to take care of children, as well as housework, and men were assigned the family economic provisioning
Qualities as devotion, self-denial, obedience and sacrifice were attributed to women and, along with other qualities, formed the stereotype of the "good wife and good mother", which has been in place for many years
Participatory Action Research is considered to be indicated for studies such as the one carried out, since it returns the protagonist role to subjects involved, brings together their perceptions, and coordinates their proposals for change on a common problem

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Introduction

In the 19th century, during the industrialization process, work and family spaces were separated, as well as tasks, based on gender; women were assigned the obligation to take care of children, as well as housework, and men were assigned the family economic provisioning. These two spaces were given a hierarchical order, and the masculine was transformed into the superior, and the feminine, into the inferior and subordinate (Wainerman, 2007). To the work that takes place outside, either in offices, factories, universities or hospitals, among others, as “productive”. In this study they will be referred to in the same way; the performance of both types of work simultaneously will be referred to as “double working day”

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