¿Sesgo de género en los servicios sociales?Un análisis utilizando etnografía focalizada

  1. Jezabel Lucas-García 1
  2. Siro Bayón-Calvo 1
  3. Rogelio Gómez-García 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

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Revue:
Cuadernos de trabajo social

ISSN: 0214-0314,  1988-8295

Année de publication: 2022

Volumen: 35

Número: 2

Pages: 183-194

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/CUTS.78458 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

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Résumé

Do women face discrimination when accessing social services? This paper uses focused ethnography to examine this question by analysing how social services users face gender biases, and describing how social workers assimilate and reproduce these constructs. As familialism is a defining feature of Mediterranean welfare states, gender biases are likely to appear, as observed from direct interventions with social workers. We focus on the case of a centre providing general social services in the Basque Country, analysing 57 cases of vulnerable men and women and examining the social interventions they receive. The study period coincides with a context of economic downturn in which austerity-based policies have played a leading role. The results show an absence of a gender perspective in a system that has not been sufficiently transformed to achieve gender equity. Gender bias is observed in the social interventions practised in a significant number of the cases, as the actions of social workers reproduce the perpetuation of a sexual division of labour and do not promote mechanisms of co-responsibility

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