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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
On-line version ISSN 1561-3194
Abstract
SILVA GONZALEZ, Jorge Luis and PEREZ VELIZ, Alie. The right of women to work and motherhood in Cuba. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.1, pp. 147-158. ISSN 1561-3194.
Introduction:
the study related to women's right to work and to motherhood is a socio-legal requirement, given the unfavorable situation of pregnant women, taking into account the introduction of the new types of self-employment modalities into the Cuba economy.
Objective:
to assess the legal protection of women's right to work and motherhood, from the stage of Cuba as a Spanish colony to the present times.
Methods:
legal-doctrinal and historical-legal methods were applied.
Results:
the right of women to motherhood is considered transcendental in the framework of the exercise of the right to work: for what it represents for their personal, family and her contribution to birth. However, the special social security regime established for those pregnant women in the self-employment sector, has some legislative gaps that exceed those established into the government sector.
Conclusion:
legal protection of the right of women to work and to motherhood, from the period of Cuba as a colony of Spain to the present times, has changed notably, especially since the neocolonial period, with the entry into force of the Constitution of 1940; establishing since that period the basic rights and a priority for the government, as part of its economic and social policy expressed in the existing constitutional law, and in others of special regime that need to be perfected.
Keywords : WOMEN'S RIGHTS; MATERNITY; PROTECTION; RIGHT TO WORK; WOMEN, WORKING.