The blue lady and the worker women: The Sección Femenina in the 60’s

Abstract

The link between women and paid work was one of the most controversial topics of the Sección Femenina (SF), especially when women were married. Although, falangistas pretended that there was not any disagreement between them, the real fact was that their internal sources and their journals show that falangistas had different points of view about women being employed. The disagreements between members become bigger when a new women role model appeared, a woman who did not want to be the angel of the house anymore. This article will try to explain the discourses of the SF about women work and the cultural changes occurred in Spain from the end of fifties to the proclamation of the law of 22nd July 1961 about woman ́s political and labour rights