Integration of women in agriculture in Cañete - Peru [Integración de la mujer en la agricultura en Cañete, Perú

Bessy Castillo Santa María,Rubén Andrés Moreno Sotomayor,Bertha Nancy Larico Quispe

doi:10.32829/sej.v4i1.126

Abstract

Women's work in the countryside is of great importance because it contributes to the economy of their people and their families from vulnerable areas, which require more attention from different institutions to improve their quality of life. The objective of this research is to determine the integration of the workforce of women in agriculture, through a questionnaire and semi-structured questions to women leaders dedicated to the agricultural sector and women workers who work in the field from the districts Imperial and Quilmana. As a result, the great growth potential of women and their contribution to food security, improvements in the economy were identified. On the other hand, these women are characterized by belonging to vulnerable sectors. Therefore, their participation in the labor force implies greater care and delicacy, especially in agro-export companies. With regard to gender equality, it is similar in work to that of men in agricultural activities, but with less income in wages. Therefore, women tend to contribute to the economic improvement of their rural family basket, being able to demonstrate great potential in labor development, taking on challenges in the face of poverty and inequality of opportunity, in the face of a state that emerges from mistrust and breach of agricultural public policies, which prevent professional development due to lack of economic resources in the rural areas of the Cañete Valley, Lima Region, Peru.

Highlights

This research tries to demonstrate the contribution made by women in the field contributing to improve their family economy, as well as the community, due to the lack of jobs, in addition to the productive diversity that develops in the Cañete Valley
Growth potential The integration of women into the countryside in the Cañete Valley is reflected with a great potential for job growth that they develop throughout the productive chain from the field to the processing plant
Women carry out complicated and difficult tasks in the field in order to guarantee the well-being of their family and their personal growth, maintaining their economic independence, and availability to generate their own expenses, many of them being single mothers, from vulnerable places, achieving the economic benefit for their children and their implementation in education, which is evidenced in the cost / benefit that leads to continue providing their work in the different agricultural companies, in which they fulfill crucial functions to determine food security, well-being from the home and society through labor in the field

Summary

Introduction

This research tries to demonstrate the contribution made by women in the field contributing to improve their family economy, as well as the community, due to the lack of jobs, in addition to the productive diversity that develops in the Cañete Valley. The identified problem lies in the lack of labor supply for women lacking higher education than existing in the area, so these women tend to go in search of work in agro-exporting companies where they carry out productive activities or field work private landowners, in order to get a paid job, one of the characteristics of these women is to be mothers who do not have other economic income, except for the activities they carry out through their personal effort, obtaining lower salaries than men , which generates inequalities They are mostly from rural areas and marginal areas of low resources and in a state of vulnerability to the economic crisis they are going through. The potential for growth is framed in the participation of the workforce with gender equality, with public policies that allow generating a common good in society in general and especially the working women who are in vulnerable áreas

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