ICT EMPLOYMENT IN SPAIN: A FOCUS OF AGE BY GENDER
Abstract
This paper shows a global perspective of the current employment situation related
to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Spain. Some previous analyses
predicted a high development of female employability within ICT, although, as this article
demonstrates, the economic crisis has caused that this trend has not occurred.
Using fictitious cohorts, this research analyzes ICT employment in relation to gender from
a generational perspective. With this goal, the paper intends to determine whether ICT have
been an occupation “refuge” for female employment as well as an employment niche for new
generations of workers during recent years.
Our findings confirm that ICT employment has resisted the stakes of economic crisis by
offering a stable and advantageous work location. However, it remains a mostly male
occupation, in which there has been no generational change.
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