Female Labour Force in the Romanian Urban Environment: Structures, Relations, Segregation Indexes

The dynamic of women's participation in the labour market had an essential role within the radical socio-demographic transformations that took place in Romania during the last two decades. Our study proposes a multi-scale analysis of the spatial differentiations, generated by women employment reflecting obvious dissimilarities in gender structure of the urban labour force. Based on the indicators of feminine activity rate and adapted gender segregation indexes, the analysis tries to demonstrate that we are facing a modernization process of the urban social structures, in spite of traditional regional disparities’ perpetuation.