bachelorThesis
Percepción de las representantes barriales de la parroquia Sinincay sobre la participación ciudadana de la mujer rural, durante el período 2021
Fecha
2021-11-16Autor
Quito Asadobay, Briggithe Carolina
Tayo Corte, Johanna Maribel
Institución
Resumen
Women are heirs to a process of historical change in the quest to end the social inequalities that
they have experienced for centuries. Gender inequality cuts across each one of the areas of
women's lives. In this study, the attention is around the political sphere in which women are still
joining efforts to take spaces in public life. Therefore, this investigative work seeks to investigate
the involvement of rural women about citizen participation from the perceptions of the
neighborhood representatives of the Sinincay, Cuenca-Ecuador parish, during the period 2021. At
the same time, the study explores the exercise of neighborhood representativeness of the rural
women and identifies the gender stereotypes demonstratios immersed in the instances of citizen
participation of the parish. The research was qualitative and descriptive, with the participation of
eight women, to whom a semi-structured interview was applied to collect the different perceptions
and experiences in their neighborhood citizen representation process. The results are that the
involvement of rural women in the instances of citizen participation is shown in both, an active
and passive way. This situation corresponds to several factors, while one of them is the presence
of gender stereotypes that promote inequalities between men and women as a result of cultural
patterns. It can be concluded that the neighborhood representation is a citizen participation space
constituted by and for the inhabitants who look for local development. Nonetheless, despite the
various difficulties which limit participation and representation, rural women have developed new
ways of addressing this problem and promoting participation in their communities.