Dilemas ideológicos y vida cotidiana: Una mirada cualitativa sobre las mujeres que teletrabajan en España

Abstract

Our study proposes ideological dilemmas as a conceptual and research tool to examine the tensions and contradictions defining our daily life. In this sense, we present a qualitative research whose object of analysis is the daily laboral experience of Spanish teleworkers having dependent people on their charge. The article highlights the dilemmatic nature of teleworking and how this is a very amplification of tensions existing in the Spanish women labor market. These tensions are based on what we have called "flexi-patriarchy". Research underscores that ideological dilemmas do not constitute crossroads that force teleworkers to choose between competing options or alternatives. On the contrary, dilemmas have a value in themselves and are deployed and maintained as explanatory resources and axiological evaluations denouncing specific situations of tension.