Women and their contribution to local development: A look from the management positions

Abstract

Several studies in Latin America show that the participation of women in management positions is still scarce, despite the existence of a broad legal framework that guarantees their participation in equal opportunities. In the province of Azuay there is limited information, specifically, in associative agricultural production organizations. For this reason, the present article aims to analyze the influence and explanatory capacity of the socio-demographic variable sex in the socio-labor variable, charge of representatives of the directives and people employed in agricultural organizations. The research was carried out from a quantitative approach and the Multifactorial Agroecological Sustainability Organizational Questionnaire (MSOA), applied to its representatives, was used. The results showed that men work in positions of presidency and administration, while women do it in treasury, secretarial and accounting positions; checking the hypothesis.