Estudio de condiciones de calidad de vida en el trabajo de las mujeres en el sector agropecuario. Cantón Rumiñahui. Año 2015

Abstract

This master's thesis presents research that reflects on the "quality of life at work" in the particular context of the Canton Rumiñahui in the province of Pichincha. For this research have been used quantitative techniques, by which it has built an instrument that allows the measurement of the variable studied. For the construction of the instrument has been used the literature review, through which came to the conclusion that the investigated variable (quality of life at work) was breaking down in five different dimensions: management of leisure time, personal development and satisfaction at work, well-being achieved through work, safety at work. Once selected the dimensions were developed a series of items to each one of them, adding a few descriptive items of a socio-economic nature. Finally, before the final implementation of the instrument was made a pilot test of validation and a prior process of validation of content, construct, and criterion. The methodology of research, therefore, was descriptive with a sample probability. The sample was designed with 84 agricultural women workers out of a population of 700 workers. Education level is low, 50% have primary education, 50% of women are providers of their homes, 71% of women have no affiliation to social security, and 20% of women unknown dangers to which they are exposed in their work could be determined as main data. The quality of life at work, is perceived as low, and the determining factors are the lack of hiring and employment regularization, the lack of health and social security, exposure to hazards at work and low pay.