Repercusiones socioculturales de la violencia contra la mujer en el cantón Santa Rosa

Abstract

Violence against women in the Santa Rosa canton has represented a great challenge of struggle, due to the sociocultural repercussions, the dynamics that revolve around the preservation of sexist paradigms and the power relations that influence the well-being of the female gender. During 2020, a total of 49 processes were reported in the Cantonal Board for the Protection of Rights in the months of June to December and in the year 2021, from January to the present date, 83 processes of violence against women, data that they determine a problem that is being generated day by day despite the advances that have been made in terms of vindication of the social guarantees of the female gender. This research work focuses on determining the impact on personal and socio-family well-being generated by the sociocultural repercussions of violence against women residing in the Canton Santa Rosa, through an in-depth investigation, based on theories such as the feminist and gender development that allows the understanding of the causal factors and critical nodes that lead to the achievement of the current problem. The knowledge validation process was generated through an inductive empirical epistemological approach, supported through a qualitative study where interviews were applied to women victims of violence to know and understand their reality that revolves around traumatic events and deterioration of their quality of life, likewise, the representatives of the Cantonal Board for the Protection of Rights were interviewed to deepen data on the problem presented, based on an analysis of gender relations from a concept of integral developmente. As relevant data of the investigation process regarding the characteristics of the levels of gender violence in the Santa Rosa canton, it is highlighted that despite the fact that the Judicial Prosecutor's Office does not keep a count of cases of violence, it was possible to identify the main typology and according to the data provided by a lawyer of the entity in question, it is highlighted that the highest number of cases received corresponds to psychological violence. Within these processes, the Cantonal Board for the Protection of Rights as promoter of the proposal to be developed, with regard to the support networks that are generated to give support and care to women victims of violence so that they denounce their aggressors, argues that there is a follow-up of the measures granted by the institution and the ratification, revocation or modification thereof, in such a way that they have a better knowledge of the status of their process. At the end of the research process, complications in psychosocial factors such as possible post-traumatic disorders and difficulties in their interpersonal relationships are highlighted as consequences in women victims of violence, in addition, economic dependence is characterized that minimizes the participation of the female gender in decision making within your home.