THE FEMALE LABOR MARKET IN THE STATE OF HIDALGO
THE FEMALE LABOR MARKET IN THE STATE OF HIDALGO
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2163282313104
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Palavras-chave: Mercado de trabalho feminino, Distrito de Hidalgo, insegurança laboral.
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Keywords: Female labor market, state of Hidalgo, job insecurity.
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Abstract: The article analyzes the female labor market in the state of Hidalgo. The expanded questionnaire from the 2020 Population and Housing Census (INEGI, 2021) was used. The main findings show that women predominate in the labor market from the ages of 21 to 50, they carry out some productive activity with less than 40 hours a week, many of them earn less than 5 thousand pesos a month and, they have better job benefits than men. The article is divided into five sections. The first section presents gender and work studies in the Mexican context. The second section presents the theory of Becker (1993), who maintains that the increase in women's participation is because they have invested more of their time and have prepared more for the labor market than for household activities. On the contrary, those women who are dedicated to household activities and childcare are unlikely to enter the labor market. The third section presents the methodology used to process and analyze the data from the 2020 Population and Housing Census. The fourth section presents the results obtained from the PEA by gender in the state of Hidalgo.
- Carlos Martinez Padilla