Travail salarié, travail domestique, travail au noir : l’économie domestique à l’épreuve de l’accession à la propriété

Patriarchal logics and gender inequalities through the financialization of housing

“…Although no studies have examined the relationship between housing as a financial asset and the increase in the gendered division of labor, there is an article that states that home ownership reinforces the division of labor between men and women (Lambert 2012). It is a justified relationship if we understand that one of the main strategies of the financialization of housing is to promote access to home ownership in the form of widespread ownership through indebtedness.…”

“…It is a justified relationship if we understand that one of the main strategies of the financialization of housing is to promote access to home ownership in the form of widespread ownership through indebtedness. Lambert (2012) states that home ownership can cause structural changes that affect domestic economies and the ways in which daily life is organized. By studying households in the peri-urban areas of Lyon, he identifies three types of households and three forms of adjustment according to the household.…”

“…For the young and less qualified working classes in large, urbanized spaces on the outskirts of the city, access to home ownership has a great cost in terms of mobility, and this is higher for women. This is because, as their salaried activity is less profitable, they are encouraged to be housewives and dedicate themselves to the care of their children, a fact that generates fragmented family ties and social isolation (Lambert 2012). And for the low and middle classes, access to home ownership is valued as a sign of class identity and an improvement in social position.…”