Labour attitudes towards gender equity in Spain

The role of education throughout an economic cycle

Bibliographic Data

ID12920990
AuthorsAna Isabel Gil‐Lacruz (0000-0002-7994-923X, Universidad de Zaragoza, corresponding author), Marta Gil‐lacruz (0000-0001-8261-058X, Universidad de Zaragoza), Amparo Gracia Bernal (0000-0002-3887-6062, Universidad de Zaragoza), Mónica Flores-García (Universidad de Zaragoza), Paola Domingo-Torrecilla (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Year2023
Volume38
Issue8
Pages1172-1190
Publication date2023-06-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender in Management An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-2413 • E-ISSN: 1754-2421
PublisherEmerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1108/gm-04-2021-0097
OpenAlexW4379179609
LanguageEN
References cited49

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)

Cohort · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Originality · Perception · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges