Labour market and gender

Abstract

In spite of some concrete specific situations, one of the characteristics common to all the European countries and to the Western world in general has to do with the increasing participation of women in the labour market, mainly since the last quarter of last century . The rising feminization of labour market is connected with the huge development of the service sector economy, which includes many activities usually labelled as ‘feminine’ because they demand a set of competences of emotional and relational or expressive nature. Following this line of argument, the implementation of social processes that help to overcome social and symbolic barriers and to develop support structures to feminine entrepreneurship is extremely important, so that the current uneven and unequal situations between genders can be surpassed.