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In this paper I intend to reconstruct, from an ethnographic perspective, a number of situations lived in an urban organization of unemployed workers at the city and the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina. On one side, I describe and analyze how a certain complementarity of tasks takes place in the ways women and men participate. On the other, I show how the existence of an Espacio de Mujeres (Women's Space) in this organization strains the outlines and limits of those ways of participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, reasons of postponing motherhood by professional young women are explored and related with changes of course in their biographies, especially with those sociologically associated with individualization, by means a qualitative research on this demographic group in Caracas (Venezuela) and Santiago (Chile). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social role of women has gone through historical transformations which have meant moving from performing only domestic chores to taking part in other segments of society. Education, politics, economics, and particularly labor are the most significant ones. And labor is the main focus of this paper. Women take up 38,5 % of the active work force in Chile, with some of them holding important public positions as Ministers, Undersecretaries, Senators, Deputies, Ministers of the Supreme Court, Mayors, and City Council members. In various work environments women are subject to gender discrimination, which translates into limited job opportunities. Women feel discriminated against in (1) salaries, (2) access to management positions, (3) ethnic issues, (4) physical aspects, (5) social class, and (6) social (neighborhood) background. Some institutions concerned with labor discrimination include the National Service for Women, the Center for Women Studies, the Institute for Liberty and Development, the PRODEMU Foundation, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL), the International Labor Organization, and the Reproductive Rights Center, among others. The current legal system includes laws in line with the evolution of the social role of Chilean women. Thus, laws on sexual harassment, equal rights for men and women, pregnant students rights, civil marriage, family courts, domestic violence, filiation, work contracts, and Sunday rest are among the most important ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to examine the implications that the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTAA) between the United States and Colombia would have particularly in the situation of Colombian women. The recent contributions that gender studies have provided to the social sciences and more specifically to economics, allow elaborating new ways of understanding issues concerning the national welfare and sovereignty from a usually marginalized perspective. The fact that there are not many studies that relate the gender factor with free trade, makes this paper a catalyst of the debate in this issue, which attempts to contribute in the analysis of the social impacts, standing specifically from a gender perspective, the implementation of the trade agreement would have. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]