Abstract

Objectives: (i) to advance scientific knowledge, both empirically and theoretically, which implies testing and confronting current theories on historical and current forms of gender inequality, articulating them with other class inequalities; (ii) to contribute to a protectorate aimed at analysing, understanding and explaining these inequalities, in particular those related to economic, political, cultural and symbolic factors, to map their complex articulations; (iii) to carry out empirical studies based on documentary analysis, surveys and interviews on the forms of unequal treatment by gender at work and in family/private life, investigating a) phenomena of discrimination and segmentation in the labour markets by gender and b) in marital relations and divorce proceedings and in the regulation of parental authority.

CoPIn

PIV – Inclusion Policies and Voices: Diversity, Gender and Intersectionality

Funding

FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(PTDC/SDE/72257/2006)

Keywords

Desigualdades
Género
Trabalho
Vida privada

Principal Investigator

Helena C Araujo

Partners

CIIE/Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciênicas da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP), Portugal