Women in Latin America

Women in Latin America

Introduction

After more than a decade of dormancy, education has become to be among the main themes of social and political debate in the region. Several countries are carrying out institutional reforms aimed at achieving a more efficient and responsive to the needs and demands of local and global, and more focused on the search for agreement and consensus on goals and procedures that engage all sectors community about long-term tasks. (Chaney, E. M. P.34-45)

Today it is recognized that the expansion model of the current coverage in the last 40 years has gone into crisis, because of the deteriorating quality of education provision and unwise use of the operational capabilities of the system. The contents of education, teaching methodologies and assessment are being thorough analysis. The new challenges of contemporary society such as environmental degradation, AIDS, urban and domestic violence, drugs, exclusion of new social sectors, the transformation of world political scene and the need for formation of a new citizenship, contained in Current agendas of politicians and educational planners. (Craske, N., & Molyneux, M. P.123-134)

Discussion

Women are and have been implicated in the history of work and production of America and from the first half of the twentieth century, at the beginning of capitalism, organized to improve their working conditions. These facts discussed the theoretical position that has kept the woman was outside the development. At the same time, women were excluded as subjects of political and social rights, and are also small groups of middle class women who had had access to education, with its struggle and vindication of the public highlighted the contradictions of Liberalism and its universality as a doctrine of freedom and equality. In the struggles suffragists are the origins of Latin American feminism, which, among other contributions, is known for his criticism and influence approaches to the relationship of women and development, both political and theoretical perspectives.

The emergence of the female subject in the theories of development or modernization of mothering The link between gender and development emerged as they relate to control the growth of population development, Population Conferences UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Hence the birth of government policies in each country were applied with few differences, but with mixed results. The emphasis was on the maternal role, continuing a cultural and political tradition that has its roots mothering in the history of ...