Análisis de la autonomía de mujeres que reciben el bono de desarrollo humano en Cuenca

Abstract

The Human Development Bond (BDH) is a program that is part of conditional cash transfer programs (CCT) whose main objective is to help reduce poverty through the strengthening of human capital invested in education and health, however this program it does not analyze the autonomy of beneficiary women or mothers, but on the contrary, it fosters and makes invisible the role of women's care work, a discussion that is focused on the ideas of the theory of care. Furthermore, CCTs are programs focused on children. and adolescents, which is why evaluations have naturally focused on their impact on them, leaving aside aspects of relationships within the home between mothers and children, and between spouses, as well as between households and authorities that administer the program. The work aims to identify specific aspects generated in the autonomy of women, their relationship with care work and the public policy behind the BDH program, for which fifteen in-depth interviews were conducted distributed among six beneficiaries, six women no beneficiaries and three technicians from the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion related to the program. We found that the autonomy of women is limited from the beginning, as they assume as their responsibility the activities of caring for the house and the people who make up the family without taking the time to develop their own skills or generate their own livelihood In addition, CCT programs continue to promote the division of responsibilities based on gender within the family through the assignment of co-responsibility to women.