September 2022
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The study seeks to understand the difficulties that young women have to access and stay in the world of work in Uruguay. Although this study places the world of paid work at the center, it broadens the view towards the social situation of women in relation to their domestic and community worlds and social participation. The research uses existing empirical evidence in the country and the one generated specifically through discussion groups with young women (18 to 29 years old), interviews with actors from the world of work, and a survey of people between 18 and 35 years old residing in Uruguay carried out at the end of 2021. The results indicate that it is in the segment of young women with a lower educational level where the greatest problems continue to be found. The insertion of women in the commerce and services sector exposes them -in a differential way to men- to a logic of services where the client has a significant weight over the experiences of women in the world of work. In this sense, the study highlights the key role of other actors in the world of work in the constitution of the «working self» of women, and the need to work explicitly on the social relationship given that the links established in the space of employment have a key role in the dynamics of support. The development of this consciousness refers not only to the employer and co-workers but also to the client, about whom some type of sensitization should be generated in this regard. To achieve this, it seems important to involve institutional actors in the world of work so that they design and develop intervention strategies. https://www.ilo.org/santiago/publicaciones/informes-tecnicos/WCMS_856009/lang--es/index.htm