De las actualmente llamadas “políticas de igualdad de género” a la eliminación de la división sexual del trabajo (DST)

Abstract

The so-called "gender equality policies" do not meet women's needs nor do they have a significant impact on the gender gap because they don't address its root cause, namely, the sexual division of labor (SDL). By concentrating on any aspect of inequality as an isolated phenomenon, they make it difficult to understand either the nature of the problem or its solution.

However, the SDL is neither natural nor unavoidable. On the contrary, existing evidence allows us to envision several concurrent ways to eliminate it. All we need to set up is the material conditions that enable women to grant access to quality employment and the social rights that ensure men can assume their fair part of care work.