De la protección del trabajo de mujeres, niños, niñas y adolescentes en la legislación ecuatoriana

Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyze the scope of labor protection of women, children and adolescents in the Ecuadorian legislation considering such protection as one of the urgent and main duties of the state, based on the principle of nondiscrimination in grounds of sex, age in work or social security. One of the most interesting topics to explore is the question of the employment situation of women and children, in terms of occupation, participation, employability, and undoubtedly discrimination in sectors that have been able to incorporate their participation in the labor market it has a different impact on men, while critical problems relating to the inclusion in public spaces, the double workday, combining the domestic with labor, and the invaluable activities arising women, and in the case of minors education with labor, ignoring age appropriate activities, staying as a primary duty of the State protection, elimination of child labor, especially the non-labor discrimination sex view that the incorporation of women to work is increasing, the origin of it is linked to the fact that women's status affects the performance of work, mainly because of her motherhood, these are fundamental aspects of study .