El rostro femenino de los liderazgos comunitarios del barrio Alirio Mora Beltrán y su incidencia en el desarrollo social

Abstract

This research aims to show the fundamental characteristics of the leadership that three Afro-descendant women have developed in the Alirio Mora Beltrán neighborhood, located in the 14th commune of the city of Cali. The foregoing with the purpose of identifying, likewise, the incidence of their contributions to social development. The theoretical framework of this research is based on the theory of gender and leadership, in addition to taking into account a constructivist stance since we consider that their approaches are relevant to understand the socio-cultural conditions that, according to the places of gender, class, ethnicity and generation, have favored or not the leadership possibilities of these women. Finally, the research was developed through a qualitative, descriptive and narrative style methodology, since the interest was to know the life experiences and community leadership trajectories produced by these women, based on their own life stories. Therefore, the technique used was the semi-structured interview fundamentally.