Empowerment of women coffee growers: challenges for local development from cooperativism

Abstract

oppressive sex-gender system as a social structure establishes asymmetrical power relations between the sexes. From this context, the empowerment of coffee-growing women is a strategy that aims to restore this inequality, giving them the ability to decide on their own affairs and on those that affect them. concern the community. The gender perspective allows evaluating what role social roles play and what are the interactions that take place between genders, hence the need to articulate the territory and gender variables, delving into the factors that determine gender gaps and the backwardness experienced by women coffee growers. In the spirit of advancing towards gender equity, the research exposes a diagnosis of gender gaps present in the cooperative coffee production process of the Tercer Frente municipality, Santiago de Cuba, thus contributing to the conceptual discussion, and identification of public policies leading to local development.