Mujeres rurales en la participación y el cuidado en tiempo de cuarentena por Covid 19 marzo-agosto 2020 en la comunidad de Dacte, Cantón Sígsig

Abstract

The care excercised by women is essential to maintain people´s lives and the social-emotional support of families, which during the pandemic has been mostly required. It a condition that is saturing the lives´women. The female reproductive activities (domestic work, care) and the affair rural´s women, the productive activities (agriculture-rancher), it make women dedícate less time to themselves, even more so with the hight demand for care that is required to protect family life in your entirety; these aspects that have notoriously intendified in the daily coexistence. Additionally, the changes determined by the quarantine for Covid 19, generated economic losses that increased the levels of female poverty, at the same time, female community participation was affected by the increase in domestic work and care and no social coexistence. Secondly, new challenges appear for care and domestic work by the use the new technologies to suply needs students. They also depend of emocional care, economics care, alimentation, among others, that historically they have been women´s activities.