Lazos y luchas, mujeres madres cabeza de hogar. Una mirada crítica y reflexiva

Abstract

“Lazos y Luchas” is an audiovisual work, documentary type, that illustrates the two stories of the life of women heads of households in an unfair context, were the creation and development of their capacities most of the time is limited by, the poor existence of public policies in their favor or the invalid application of these policies in Colombian society. The making of this investigation is not only represented by a personal life experience, but it also reflects the story of life of approximately 12 millions of women in Colombia that try to find welfare for their homes, with the minimum of assurances, a low level of opportunities and the absence of gender equality and social justice. This research intends to show the reality of strong women, aguerridas, examples of empowerment and survival, forged from their family bonds that allows them to display a firm role not only as heads of households in their homes but also as life examples in our society and productive agents of development and social change. Through the use of these two life stories an analysis and reflection are performed about the different dispositions of constitutional and legal orders that support the rights of the women head of household and in what form do these orders impact in the like of these women; managing to identify both the mechanisms and communication strategies used by public institutions to publicize these legal provisions, as well as access to opportunities that the state itself provides, allowing these women to create and develop their capacities and the necessary tools to make them guarantors of their rights, achieving well-being for them and their homes.

Key Words: Family, family typology, woman/mother head of their home, access to opportunities and creation of capabilities.