Women in health: between work and everyday life. A study of the factors that influence the role assumed by professional women in the health sector in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina

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https://doi.org/10.12795/TPDM.2022.i6.06

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women, work, health sector, daily life, labor conditions

Abstract

This article has focused the attention on work and the factors that have influenced in the role of professional women of the Health Sector in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. In this framework, due to the presence of women in the sector, and the educative high levels they represent, they have become the spine of the health system. Nevertheless, these women develop their duties in a context of labor conditions with high vulnerability towards sanitary, social and economical. In this point, the question that comes up is ¿Are there selected factors that influence in the role those professional women assume in the health sector (public and private) in the city of Santa Fe? To answer this question, it is used a quantitative methodology by the application of a survey destinated to professional women of the Health Area. The work concludes that, due to the importance of the labor developed by these women, it becomes necessary and urgent, to generate conditions to preserve their health, security and economical stability, to ensure the role of the woman in the Health Sector as fundamental mediator the well-being of the whole population.

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Published

2022-12-28

How to Cite

Morales Carrizo, S. (2022). Women in health: between work and everyday life. A study of the factors that influence the role assumed by professional women in the health sector in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. Trabajo, Persona, Derecho, Mercado, (6), 181–225. https://doi.org/10.12795/TPDM.2022.i6.06

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Artículos doctrinales
Received 2022-10-30
Accepted 2022-12-16
Published 2022-12-28