Abstract

BENITEZ, Bárbara et al. Participatory research with a gender perspective. Achievements of women inthe province Mayabeque in the local development of their yards and farms . cultrop [online]. 2012, vol.33, n.1, pp. 57-64. ISSN 0258-5936.

Develop local development strategies with a focus on gender is an objective of work in the field of local development. From this concept, this work was developed in the Municipality of San José de las Lajas "CCS Orlando Cuellar" and housewives in the villages of San Jose and the Commonwealth of Tapaste and two municipalities of the province Mayabeque: Santa Northern Cross "CCS Batabano “Jose Castellanos” and "CCS April 9," with the overall objective of Implementing participatory gender-sensitive, allowing the development of women within the contexts of agricultural study. This will involve workshops: awareness, training and exchange between farmers, using participatory appraisal techniques with a focus on gender, which helped identify the felt needs of men and women, to determine the roles, the sexual division of labor, limiting the agricultural production, marketing difficulties, and so on. Also in the sensitization workshops were built equity indicators through the method of assessment indicators and dimensions of gender equity, and strategy in the study, being selected seventeen indicators. The result of this study showed that most of the indicators were statistically significant differences among themselves, except the indicators "Women earn income from their production" and "Women and men with access to sales of products."

Keywords : community development; pilot farms; gender; women's participation.

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