Women in Organisation for Poor Unemployed Working People: Reshaping female roles through political commitment

ADA FREYTES FREY; CECILIA CROSS CROSS; FLORENCIA PARTENIO; KARINA CRIVELLI; MARÍA INÉS FERNÁNDEZ ÁLVAREZ

Gender and Suistainable Development: Case Studies from NCCR North South

Geographica Bernensia

Lugar: Berna; Año: 2006; p. 233 - 248

Abstract In this article we are presenting some preliminary results of the project "The gender issues in the unemployed workers organisations, a public or domestic problem?" directed by Osvaldo Battisttini from CEIL –Piette (CONICET, Argentina) and Alvaro San Sebastián from MOST Unesco, Argentina. This project is being financially and academically supported by IP8/NCCR North South.   In this paper we are presenting some preliminary results related to the women participation in the PUW organisations, and the impact of their experience in their representations about female roles. We are going to discuss in the first place the guidelines of the methodology used. Secondly, we are going to introduce some distinctive characteristics of PUW organisations and their process of constitution. After this general context we address the core of the article. First the tensions involved in the creation of women´s areas and finally the continuities and changes in feminine traditional models after women´s social and political commitment.