Care, values and gender: the distribution of family roles in the collective imagination of Spanish society

Abstract

Deusto Social Values Team, to which the authors of this text belong, represents Spain in the EVS and has been commissioned to apply the survey also in its latest edition 2018 (between December 2017 and January 2018). In order to aim this, it has counted on the financing granted to the project Change of values in Spain and in Europe: European identity, social justice and solidarity before new scenarios (Ref.: CSO2016-77057-R) in the State Program of Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of the Society of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in 2016.This article analyzes descriptively some values, perceptions and attitudes of Spanish society from the European Values Survey (EVS) in its application in Spain in 2018. In this case, we have focused on the study of the values associated with the tasks of care, both of the offspring and of the ascendants. The main objective of this work has been to analyze the coexistence of new labor roles with traditional domestic roles associated with women. It has also been studied whether society, at a value and discursive level, is building new ways of assuming care tasks. In this sense, we can affirm that we have found a distance between the practice of care and the conception of the responsibility of care.