Trabajo y género: sectores laborales de las mujeres en Cuenca

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to show the development of the forms of work, implemented in our local reality from the participation of women in the creation of various goods or objects in which the value of human work is reflected, which even in our environment it is for the most part material, strongly crossed by the technological revolution that has invaded the world of globalization capitalist. The research was carried out in the city of Cuenca, a territorial space that throughout its historical-social formation has shown a mobile region inhabited since time immemorial by the Cañari culture, the basis of our deep identity and of those who inherit the forms of survival, solidarity and creativity that today continues to be reflected in the inhabitants of the center-south region, especially women, for whom the "Señores del Sur", the Cañaris, had a predilection for being women of work, women of unlimited creation.