HI mani a mandaku ka mali kê? um estudo sobre o lugar da mulher pobre na Família

Abstract

The present paper analyse the place of woman in the family through way she participate in the control system of financial resources in the social space. We conducted a field study in Maputo city, Polana Canico in the neighborhood. The aim of the study is to understand how different poor women with diverse experiences accessing financial resources and as such are exercising control of them. Using a quantitative methodology, we applied a questionnaire survey of 21 women, and perform a comparative study among women younger and older, with access and without access to a source of personal income. The type of sampling used was not probabilistic. For our data analysis, we used the analytical perspective provided by studies of Intersectionality, which is based on the principle that the analysis of social inequalities can not be done using only a social characteristic, but rather from an intersectional analysis across several characteristics that generate inequalities in a single analysis, such as gender, social class, race, ethnicity, among others. The argument is that we stand for, the women's group is not homogenous, there are significant differences between them, and it is these differences that will determine the place it occupies in the family structure. In the present work, poor women occupy different places in the family structure, the main factor of variation concrete experiences. It was found that older women with access to a source of income, unlike the younger, can design strategies that allow them to gain greater control and autonomy to decide on their resources, and because said, they don ́t occupy a seat of total "submission" in the family