Austerity and women’s employment trajectories in Spain and the UK: A comparison of two flexible labour markets
通过混合方法追踪西班牙和英国女性在金融危机和紧缩政策下的就业变化，发现两国女性面临不同的劳动力市场困境：西班牙女性更易陷入失业和临时工，英国女性则面临公共部门就业不稳和工资福利削减。
Using a mixed methods approach this article investigates the impact of the financial crisis and austerity on women’s employment and life chances in Spain and the UK through tracking women’s changing labour market transitions and exploring women’s responses to disrupted employment paths. Women’s experiences were found to be strongly influenced by the different employment and social models and the specific austerity policies. In Spain women faced increases in both labour market flexibility and segmentation, involving more entrapment in unemployment and temporary jobs and declining protection within permanent contracts. In the UK women retained more access to employment but faced destabilisation of public sector employment and a strong budget squeeze from wage and benefit cuts. They were less able than women in Spain to draw on both family support and unemployment benefits to reorient their careers, but in both countries women were resisting employment changes and reaffirming their commitment to employment.