La mujer en la organización comunitaria y su articulación con instituciones del sector público y privado

Abstract

The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of a group of women from communal organizations during the processes of negotiation, dialogue and participation with in- stitutions of the private and public sector which lend a service to the citizenship. It belongs to a qualitative investigation rea- soned with the phenomenological method; four participants were selected, from an urban community in the municipality of Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela. The information was obtained through semi-structured interviews. For the system- atization of the information, the computer program Atlas ti Demo Version was used, which made possible the formation of units of sense and the structure for the experience. The results showed that a protection factor for studied women was the support from their family group, which facilitated the pres- ence of this group in the public life. The consolidation of community organizations has allowed them to get access to the structures of power to obtain resources or goods for the collective sake. As for the articulation processes with the insti- tutions, protest and pressure were dominant in the discourses as the way to agree about the resources, the goods and services when their requests were not taken seriously.