Incidencia de los micro-créditos de la Corporación ‘En las Huellas del Banco Grameen’ que reciben las mujeres del cantón Loja, en sus relaciones de pareja y de familia durante el año 2015

Abstract

This research was carried out with poor women from the parishes of Sucre and El Valle in the canton and province of Loja, affected by the socioeconomic crisis and the gender inequality that deepened their exclusion.

Based on their experiences in micro-credit and their empowerment processes, a baseline was implemented in two urban sectors. The results confirmed the research hypothesis: the positive incidence of microcredit in the personal and family life of the participating women. A representative sample of the two groups was selected and considered variables related to family relationships, gender equality and the incidence of microcredit in the well-being of women and their families.

The research has been contextualized in a process, first communitarian and then institutional of the microcredit practices of solidarity. It is very interesting to know the historical process of approximately thirty years ago of this strategy of survival and solidarity, which had its beginnings in the initiatives of civil society and that since the new millennium, has been gradually adopted by the national state.