The Well-Being as a manifestation of the Human Development of Rural Women from Lenguazaque Township, Cundinamarca, Colombia

Abstract

Welfare is a inherent condition to human dignity being; there are welfare as long as people, in this case, women potentially develop their skills. The work presented here is part of an investigation that has been developed with the inhabitants of Lenguazaque Municipality, specifically with peasant farmers, ranchers and miners, who make up the Coopalac Cooperative. Methodology has been guided through the process of rapprochement with the female community as well as with the development of workshops, in-depth interviews, life stories, this implies putting as inductive processes by which it is known and inquires into the wants and needs of people being studied. The result of applied instruments has shown that although women try to lead productive processes such as participation in courses and workshops in Institutions like University of La Salle, are women with little formal training and little, if not no participation in public office. Therefore, in this article refers to poverty of rural women, in the Lenguazaque municipality, seen not only as a lack of income, in terms of Sen, but as lack of capacity will be done; aspect that influences the freedom and welfare of women studied. Be considered from this perspective; variables such as sustainable development, unemployment and lack of job opportunities, health (adolescent fertility, maternal mortality) education, inequality and gender violence.