Sobre el temps de treball : vells paradigmes, nous debats

This article aims at presenting a critical analysis on two current debates on the regulation of working time, the four-day working week and the telework forms. From a gender perspective, therefore, a brief historical exercise on the evolution of these debates is presented, followed by an empirical approach to current reality. All these historical, theoretical, and empirical features serve as a basis for considering the extent to which a social reference model persists behind the new political proposals, which reproduces the logic of productive centrality and the sexual division of labour. In particular, it is argued that the persistence of this logic takes the form of an old paradigm masked by new proposals that are put forward on working hours reductions and work and life balance.