Women’s situation and position in the society has been in detail nationally and internationally
discussed during the last decades. Even if, when it comes to the European women, one could say
their rights are highly respected as compared to the African or Arab women for example, they also
confront sharp problems. In many European countries, they live a growing and powerful daily
insecurity, with unpredictability in their unilateral labour contracts and mechanisms of retention,
promotion, remuneration, and working time. “In the face of such mechanisms, often the only option
for defense, claim or resistance is to quit. To a great extent, these options explain their labour
trajectories, marked by a notorious instability and horizontal mobility…This limits the possibility to
settle in any labour community and therefore the possibility to establish a social and political
presence” (Kruse, 2000 in Beneria, 2001).