El trabajo doméstico (amas de casa) en Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: Domestic work, centered on housewives, represents one of the most primordial activities of human beings because it implies taking care of the home and the space where one lives daily, in such a way that it is indispensable to carry it out, and this has been socially constructed as the personal responsibility of women. Based on this context, the main objective of this research focused on determining the characteristics of housewives in Ecuador, for which secondary information taken from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU), 2021 was used. After the analysis it was established that this activity continues to be undervalued and with a minimal integration of men with only 2.64%, compared to the participation of women which is 97.36%. Another important result is that the majority of people engaged in domestic activities are in urban areas, resulting in 76.4%, compared to 23.6% in rural areas of the country. This shows that since most housewives are women, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to entering the labor market and receiving remuneration.