Percepción de las representantes barriales de la parroquia Sinincay sobre la participación ciudadana de la mujer rural, durante el período 2021

Abstract

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.