Mining woman, activist to strengthen work in The Higuerillo mine, in the Municipality of Buenos Aires Cauca Mujer minera, activista para fortalecer el trabajo en la mina El Higuerillo, en el Municipio de Buenos Aires, Cauca

Abstract

This article seeks to identify the activist role that mining women have within their ancestral culture and whose work is created by black women who live in the north of the department of Cauca, especially in the El Higuerillo mine in the municipality of Buenos Aires (Cauca) municipality of Honduras.

This work is what gives the female gender the opportunity to carry out work within a social reality in a recurring population, and which can be practiced by people who, in addition to being active subjects within a regional system, seek economic opportunities, and that although it is a job dominated by the male sex, what is sought is gender inclusion within job opportunities.

To carry out this article it was decided to work from a mixed exploratory methodology; surveys, interviews because first, the aim is to specify the properties, characteristics and profiles of the people, group or communities, the aim is to measure or collect information independently or jointly about the variables of the phenomena, and the events of the work female miner within a community. The results showed that the labor gap between men and women miners in Higuerillo is real, and that it is not exclusively a matter of men, the presence of women is classified as a trend included in large mining companies where they only seek to implement new spaces of job.