Abstract

SOLOS DUROZO, Ivon Alejandro; SORIA ROMO, Rigoberto  and  RIVAS JIMENEZ, Claudia Patricia. ANALYSIS OF THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS IN MEXICO: SHARED PRECARIOUSNESS AND DIFFERENTIATED NEEDS. Innovar [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.85, pp.101-116.  Epub July 27, 2022. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v32n85.101189.

In this paper, the working conditions of women and men heads of households were characterized and contrasted through a typology that considered variables such as education, age, type of employment, and marital status. The main labor characteristics among the most representative groups were analyzed in order to assess job insecurity. Comparative qualitative analysis was implemented by generating truth tables using microdata from the Mexican National Survey of Occupation and Employment for the first quarter of 2019. Results show that Mexican heads of households experience a generalized precariousness grounded in low education levels, which contrasts with the needs that gender roles entail. Our findings identified three groups of female heads of family: i) self-employment, low salary and no access to social benefits; ii) subordinate jobs with adverse gender gaps; and iii) subordinate jobs with low precariousness levels. One implication of this categorization lies in the overlapping of individuals' occupation with their reproductive and parenting stage. It should be noted that this work focused solely on working conditions, leaving aside some aspects of family dynamics.

Keywords : Gender gaps; working conditions; head of household; job insecurity; typologies.

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