Abstract

PINO BERMUDEZ, Dunia  and  ALFONSO GALLEGOS, Yanet. Self-employment and Gender: Transformations for Young Women in the Cienfuegos Context. Estudios del Desarrollo Social [online]. 2021, vol.9, n.3  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 2308-0132.

Gender must be related to all aspects of live, whether in the private or public spheres. To each person some roles are established to be assumed by society in relation to sex, becoming this an issue that is currently linked to all areas of life. Private self-employment, a recent economic sector that reappears in Cuba, is not isolated from gender problems, and it has been part of the social, cultural and economic transformations. The present research has as starting point the sociological approach giving as a result an analysis of the current researched line. It has as a main aim to identify the roles that young women play in the private self-employed sector in Cienfuegos. For the elaboration of this, the mixed methodology was used, where the qualitative and quantitative are combined, the general method used is the case study, as well as the techniques of document analysis and an interviewing applied to 20 private self-employed women. The assumption of women roles related to gender, work and family vary between traditional and nontraditional elements. The study of updated bibliographies, allowed a better understanding of the subject to which the study was directed permitting both a theoretical and methodological result.

Keywords : gender; gender roles; private self-employment; self-employed woman.

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