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Recherches sociographiques

Choix et contraintes : femmes, démographie et travail

Andrée Fortin

Femmes et reproductionVolume 32, Number 3, 1991

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/056642arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/056642ar

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Département de sociologie, Faculté des sciences sociales, Université Laval

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0034-1282 (print)1705-6225 (digital)

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Fortin, A. (1991). Choix et contraintes : femmes, démographie et travail. Recherchessociographiques, 32 (3), 441–453. https://doi.org/10.7202/056642ar

Article abstract

The publication of the proceedings of the symposium «Femmes et questionsdémographiques» provides an occasion to reflect on the links between productivework and reproductive work. Women often bear the burden of low birth rates. Theauthors respond to an alarmist view of demography with an optimistic interpretationof recent trends and a reflection on the complexity of the links between productionand reproduction. What is unmentioned in these analyses is the profoundtransformation of the labour market that is under way : dualization, tertiarization,which create the need for a new social division of labour.