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ELORZA, María Eugenia  y  TORTUL, Marina. Gender gaps in the work areas of the Argentine health system. Salud(i)Ciencia [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.3, pp.137-144.  Epub 20-Ene-2023. ISSN 1667-8682.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21840/siic/170617.

Studies with a gender perspective focus on the way in which women and men relate to each other in different spheres, reflecting the distribution of power between them. This type of work division conditions the working life of women, who tend to dedicate fewer hours to paid work than men, affecting their labor income, as well as other non-monetary compensations. The objective of this study was to characterize the men and women employed in the health sector of Bahía Blanca, Argentina, from a gender perspective. For this, the Permanent Household Survey of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC, as per its initials in Spanish) was analyzed using a quantitative methodology. The main results indicate that, although the sector is composed of a majority of women, this proportion being even greater than in the rest of the country, with more education and work experience than their male counterparts, women face conditions of horizontal and vertical labor segregation. At the same time, differences are observed in the contracting conditions. The study of work from a gender perspective will contribute to the design of policies that propose gender equity, that is, the absence of systematic and unfair differences in the working conditions and opportunities between women and men. In particular, this information can be very useful for developing strategies that tend to improve the situation of women when health care management is decentralized to lower levels of government.

Palabras clave : gender perspective; contracting conditions; gender equity; labor segregation; health care management.

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