Análisis del significado de las ocupaciones atribuidas a ser mujer y madre para mujeres con discapacidad intelectual en la ciudad de Punta Arenas

Abstract

This research aims to show what are the meanings that women with intellectual disabilities give to the experiences of being a woman and mother, alongside with the factors that facilitate and hinder this process. A qualitative methodology from the perspective of the interpretive paradigm was used, with a descriptive-exploratory methodological approach, the type of design that was used is symbolic interactionism, based on case study, where the sample is composed of three women with intellectual disabilities and the results were analyzed according to Grounded Theory. The principal conclusion obtained in this investigation is that the meanings attributed by this group of women studied on having been woman and mother are the femininity and domestic tasks, joined emotional factors and of taken care basic. An important finding is that this group of persons is vulnerable to that there is a transgression of kind as the violation of his more basic human rights in his daily life, they do not exercise his significant occupations of independent form, being victims of a situation of Occupational Apartheid and Occupational Injustice.