Convenio sobre el trabajo nocturno (mujeres) 1919 (núm. 4)
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 2282-2313
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: Conmemoración del Centenario de la OIT, 2019
Volume: 7
Issue: 0
Pages: 441-455
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Internacional y Comparada de Relaciones Laborales y Derecho del Empleo
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Abstract
The legal treatment of night work, a genuine issue of international labor legislation, found its justification in the painful and unhealthy situation in which women and children were employed in full effervescence of industrial capitalism. Within the framework of the ILO, a normative approach to night work began with Convention No. 4 of 1919, concerning night work for women in industry. This instrument, in light of a gender mainstreamig, can be questioned since it was absent in the process of forming those norms. Its validity is in disagreement with the principles of equal treatment and opportunities, as well as with the principle of non-discrimination. The recent repeal of the instrument under comment has highlighted the stigmatization to which women have been subjected. Can you really talk about a protective standard? It is intended to give a vision from a gender perspective about the inequality of opportunities in access to employment, offering a critical response about why night work can not continue to be used as an discriminatory pretext in labor relations