Normalización de la violencia de género y su repercusión en la vida de mujeres acogidas en la casa María Amor durante el período 2022

Abstract

Gender violence is a phenomenon that affects all women regardless of their ethnicity, age group, level of education and economic sector. It is promoted in culture, which has cemented its presence in time and allowed it to span generations. It should be noted that gender-based violence is a social construct that violates human rights through beliefs, ideas and behaviors such as: the right to life, liberty and security, the right to be free from all forms of discrimination, and not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. With this social construct present in culture, the power of men over women emerges as a force that has been created and shaped by society, instilling the notion that men are superior to women and that masculine values hold more merit than feminine values. This in turn generates inequalities. Likewise, the socialization of gender roles is essential for the patriarchal power structure to endure over time. Normalization casts doubt on women's abilities to resolve conflicts or problems, which in the long term presents emotional consequences that can manifest in various ways, such as learned helplessness. Under this framework, the objective of the research was to describe the process of normalization of gender violence and its impact on the lives of women sheltered in the María Amor house, during the 2022 period. For this, a qualitative approach was used, with a descriptive scope and a phenomenological method. The total size of the study group was five women. The interview and the focus group were the applied techniques. This research corroborates the results of other studies, insofar as the patriarchal culture is a system of institutionalized domination that has been maintained over time, being a fundamental factor for the normalization of gender violence. Another result that was obtained is that learned helplessness causes emotional sequelae and motivations in women that can generate serious damage to their mental health in the future.