El trabajo invisibilizado de las mujeres jancheras en el marco de la ecología política feminista en la parroquia Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Azuay, 2021‐2022

Abstract

Within the mining sector there are different types of jobs and actors, which are not always governed by labor formality. This research was conducted in order to make visible the work of women jancheras in the framework of Feminist Political Ecology in the parish of Camilo Ponce Enriquez, Azuay, 2021-2022. A mixed approach methodology was applied; on the one hand, the quantitative method and exploratory-descriptive scope was applied to learn about the janche work developed within the mining areas, as well as, the working conditions of the jancheras women; on the other hand, the qualitative method and phenomenological scope, in order to recognize the experiences that motivated the jancheras women to engage in this type of activities and to remain in them, generation after generation. The techniques used were the survey and the semi-structured interview. The survey was applied to a sample of 65 women jancheras and the results were ordered and tabulated in the SPSS statistical program. The semi-structured interviews were applied to 7 different actors, these interviews were processed and categorized in the ATLAS.TI software program. The results obtained show that women jancheras face work-related accidents, health problems, work overload, no labor protection, and their work is invisible and unrecognized because it is carried out under the shadow of informality.