EMPLOYMENT CRISIS, AUSTERITY AND GENDER RELATIONS IN PORTUGAL:THE CASE OF THE AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MADEIRA

Abstract

Abstract In Portugal, despite the improvements experienced in recent years, discrimination in labor relations based on gender still persists. In the context of the economic, financial, political and labor crisis, where austerity, implemented and supervised by the International Monetary Fund, has aggravated labor precariousness, it is fundamental to analyze the impact of this reality on the labor market and on the relationships of genre. In this framework, this reflection is placed. From a first approach on the theoretical perspectives of labor transformations and gender relations, we turn to the analysis and understanding of recent changes and trends in the labor market, of flexibility and of the future of gender equality, in the light of the contributions of the sociologists Sara Falcón Casaca (2012) and Virginia Ferreira (2014).