Abstract

DURON-GARCIA, Lucía; ZAPATA-MARTELO, Emma; ALBERTI-MANZANARES, Pilar  and  GARZA-BUENO, Laura E.. Gender relations in the Woman's Program in the Agrarian Sector (PROMUSAG). agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2006, vol.3, n.1, pp.39-55. ISSN 1870-5472.

The purpose of this study was to show the complex network of relations between the State, the peasants' organizations, technicians and rural women as subjects of development inside the dynamics of the Woman's Program in the Agrarian Sector (PROMUSAG) of the Agrarian Reform Secretariat (ARS), as well as the gender mainstreaming that the program is supposed to have. Results showed that mainstreaming of the gender approach in the PROMUSAG dynamics is shortened by the program design, as well as by the traditional relations between State, peasants' organizations, technicians and rural women, what makes the rural development from the gender perspective difficult.

Keywords : Empowerment; gender; inter-sectorial relations; gender mainstreaming.