Employment versus empowerment: A case study of the nature of women's work in Ecuador
结合劳动力市场分割理论和女性主义理论，分析厄瓜多尔女性在就业中的职业地位变化，发现女性在资源控制和工作过程控制上处于劣势且随时间恶化。
This research re‐evaluates the female marginalisation thesis through an examination of the changing nature of work in Latin America and of women's incorporation into paid employment. We combine labour market segementation theory, which explains the emergence of low level occupations in terms of capitalist restructuring, with feminist theory, which explains why women become concentrated in inferior positions. We operationalise this reconceptualisation through an empirical analysis of women's and men's relative occupational position across economic sectors and through time in Ecuador. A key finding is that women's and men's occupations are differentiated in terms of control over economic resources and control over the labour process and that this worsens over time.