Empoderamiento laboral y situación familiar de la mujer académica en al Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Socialesde la Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Abstract

The purpose of the descriptive investigation, with a population of 28 women, is to determine the existence of a relationship between the labor empowerment and the family situation of the academic woman in the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato. Through the IMEM test that visualizes the empowerment of women in seven factors such as participation, recklessness, external influences, independence, equality, social satisfaction and security. While the family situation, it will be identified with the SWING Work - Family interaction questionnaire; which consists of four interactions such as negative interaction work - family, negative interaction family - work, positive interaction work - family, positive interaction family – work. The information received reflects barriers between equal opportunities and current job development between women and men; Thus, the research is based on the methodology of the critical paradigm, as it is an alternative of social research that is based on instrumental logic schemes and proposes alternative solutions towards what is recognized. In turn, the collection of information was carried out with a mixed approach, based on validated statistical measurement instruments and life stories of academic women. The proposal is developed, based on the results obtained in the research, seeking the development of actions that allow women to develop in a balanced way in their roles as mother, wife, wife and worker. Proposing a "Program of conciliation in the family and work life of the academic woman", which consists of diverse diffusing activities of an equitable management of the time and of quality with the family and the labor area, fomenting the perspective of gender.