Some Reflections on the Nature and Future of the Double Female Presence as a Social Phenomenon

Abstract

The paper analyzes double female presence as a social phenomenon, describing its characteristics and establishing its origin as the product of an unfinished material reality, the incomplete assimilation of women by the labor market. This situation has generated an ambiguous process of socialization for a sector of the female population in which the simultaneous development in the housework and a paid job, with the subsequent disadvantages in terms of quality of life for those in this situation, is assumed as natural. It is concluded that the market itself, rather than public policies is responsible for transforming this disadvantageous situation for women.