Impacto de la doble presencia en el ejercicio de la maternidad : estudio de madres con empleo formal en la ciudad de Guayaquil 2024.

Abstract

The present research is entitled “Impact of Dual Presence in the exercise of Motherhood: Study of working mothers in the city of Guayaquil in the year 2024, which seeks to analyze the impact of dual presence in the exercise of motherhood of working mothers in order to propose labor flexibility policies that improve their quality of life. The objectives of this research were to describe the forms of organization of the daily life of working mothers who have children from 0 to 5 years old under their care, to identify the influence of the exercise of work on the mother-child relationship, from the perception of working mothers, and to investigate the repercussion of the simultaneous exercise of maternity and work on other dimensions of the life of working women. In order to achieve the objectives described above, a qualitative approach was used. A population of women with permanent jobs was used, whose participation requirements were: to be mothers of children between 0 and 5 years of age, to have a permanent job, to participate voluntarily and to sign a consent form. The sample was chosen through non-probabilistic convenience sampling. This is a descriptive, exploratory study. The phenomenological method was used to capture the essence of the experiences lived by the participating mothers. For the collection of information, an in-depth interview was used and the results were analyzed through the content analysis proposed by Sampieri. It is necessary to emphasize that this research work made it possible to demonstrate the impact of the double presence in the exercise of motherhood.