Nonetheless, other forms of employment have been institutionalized.
We use the expression “diversification and flexibilization of forms of employment” to
refer to the development of other/flexible forms of employment, and not other common
expressions such as “atypical” or “new forms of employment”, since, in Portugal,
some of them already existed and, eventually, constituted the majority of employment
(especially for women), being now reconfigured and generalized (Kovács 2004b: 49).