El acceso de la mujer rural a la educación superior: Un estudio de caso en la comunidad de la vereda el Verjón

Abstract

This paper is a case study made during 2016-2018 at rural school from the village of El Verjón, an area that belongs to Bogotá DC, Colombia, and that due to its rural characteristics contrasts with the rest of the capital, the largest city of the country. This place is the women’s home who by tradition, occupation or family bond are defined as peasants or of peasant origin, and this condition determines their possibilities of access to higher education, which in Colombia comprises the technical, technological and professional levels. This paper proposes to understand how are related the elements of gender, rurality and access to higher education through qualitative methods, such as semi-structured interviews, field observation and documentary research. Then examines how these three elements imply some of the main obstacles that women face imposed by the structural conditions, social forms or cultural imaginary and maybe that it’s one of the keys to strengthening the rights of women in Colombia, and therefore the work concludes with a series of recommendations and practical proposals aimed at this.