What is it about?
This article explores the relationship between travel distance to work and reproductive work for working women. Using data by the Extended Questionnaire of the Census Sample of the 2010 Population and Housing Census, home-work commuting routes were mapped at the municipal level, combined with four variables of reproductive work.
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Why is it important?
Our study demonstrates that as the reproductive work increases for working women, they experience spatial segregation since they cannot travel as far as the ones with lower reproductive work because they are expected to take care of the reproductive work.
Perspectives
We consider it necessary to point out the patriarchal influence in the language used by the institutional apparatus of our country (Mexico), which is reflected in the census data analysed. The term working women (translated from Spanish mujeres ocupadas) states that women who do not carry out some type of economic activity classified in the census do not work, even when they do some other sort of activity, e.g. domestic and caregiving work. It only gives value to paid work and makes invisible the rest of the tasks that do not involve a monetary flow.
Ruben Garnica-Monroy
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
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This page is a summary of: Reproductive work as a limitation for working women in Monterrey, Mexico, Journal of Maps, July 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2022.2093658.
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