Empoderamiento femenino e inserción por la economíaanálisis comparativo del modelo de las cooperativas andaluzas y de la economía solidaria en brasil

Abstract

This study has as the main objective the investigation of the following hypotheses: how the Social Economy and/or Solidarity cooperatives contribute to the female empowerment by providing equity dynamics in relation to social, economic and cultural terms, promoting gender equality. The main objectives that north this research are: 1) To address the social, economic and cultural factors that govern the most prevailing social enterprises. The main factors are: gender, education, and the role of the cooperatives in the economic and social development of each country. 2) To analyze the factors that contemplate the two forms of management of the system of Social Economy and Solidarity Economy: in the sense of verifying possible similarities and/or differences. And; 3) To discuss the social and economic results obtained through field research carried out in two countries, Spain (Autonomous Community of Andalucia) and Brazil (in the states of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul), and analyzing them. To do so, the thesis is based on a research methodology characterized as a case study, exploratory, illustrative and potentially explanatory, carried out in twenty-four cooperatives in Brazilian and Spanish territories, between June and July 2016. By means of a questionnaire via the google drive tool, there were held open and semi-structured questionnaire interviews with the members of the governing council and directors, whose methods of evidence analysis are basically qualitative and quantitative, that seek to identify and classify key structural dimensions, to search for common behavioral patterns, the creation of a theoretical explanation and the identification of casual relationships and the analysis of critical decisions. The results of the research show that in relation to the number of women, all of them who were surveyed considered the cooperative as a very favorable structure for female empowerment. After the analysis of the results, it’s possible to conclude that the adopted method is adequate, once it allowed to reach the proposed objectives and that the hypothesis of this thesis is true, since the identified results demonstrated that the cooperatives are a leading instrument in the promotion of the Social Economy, and that their economic, social and cultural dynamics women’s empowerment and gender equality in both countries. Keywords: Social Economy, Solidarity Economy, Gender, Spain, Brazil.