Labour attitudes towards gender equity in Spain: the role of education throughout an economic cycle

Gil-Lacruz, Ana I. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Gil-Lacruz, Marta (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Gracia Bernal, Amparo (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Flores-García, Mónica (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Domingo-Torrecilla, Paola

Resumen: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyse the background and consequences of the Spanish job market on the employment conditions of Spanish women and on underlying attitudes on gender role in the working environment.
Design/methodology/approach: From the European Social Survey (2004, 2008, 2010, 2016), the authors draw a sample of 3,706 individuals aged from 25 to 64 years old living in Spain. The sample allows the authors to make estimations from several aggregation levels depending on gender (men and women) and generational cohort (baby boom and X generation).
Findings: Education improves the perception of women’s work among both men and women. The role of education is especially interesting for older people. Educational levels help women adapt to a changing context, promote female participation in the job market and protect them from unemployment situations. This study demonstrates that both gender and generational cohort moderate the impact of education on gender labour attitudes and working status.
Research limitations/implications: Finally, this work is not exempt from limitations. For example, the use of cross sections does not allow the authors to obtain a richer set of causal relationships than the use of panel data would allow them. In addition, it would be interesting to replicate the study of gender labour attitudes among human resource managers and workers to have a broader view of what happens within companies.
Originality/value: The main contribution to the state of the art is to demonstrate that both gender and generational cohort moderate the impact of education on gender labour attitudes and working status. In addition, this study analyses whether gender labour attitudes change throughout the economic cycles, because population characteristics change (endowment effect) and/or because the same characteristics have different impacts (coefficient effect).

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1108/GM-04-2021-0097

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Gender in management 38, 8 (2023), 1172-1190
ISSN: 1754-2413

Factor impacto JCR: 2.3 (2023)

Categ. JCR: WOMENS STUDIES rank: 9 / 66 = 0.136 (2023) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: BUSINESS rank: 164 / 304 = 0.539 (2023) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: MANAGEMENT rank: 221 / 407 = 0.543 (2023) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 6.4 - Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Gender Studies (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.995 - Gender Studies (Q1) - Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Organización de Empresas (Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas)
Área (Departamento): Área Psicología Social (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)
Área (Departamento): Área Dcho.Intern.Púb.Relac.In. (Dpto. Derecho Público)