Violencia de género en parejas jóvenes heterosexuales. Estudio en el sector “La Lolita” del cantón Bucay.

Abstract

Gender violence is defined as the expression of power and dominion that men exercise against women, which materializes through episodes of physical, psychological, sexual or patrimonial abuse. In Ecuador, at least 60% of women have experienced some type of violence, an amount that is alarming in this country that guarantees rights. However, these statistics are not usually true, since in some locations gender violence has not yet been visible, this is the case of the La Lolita sector, located in the Bucay canton, Guayas province. In this sector, inhabited by approximately 50 families, there are no studies that indicate the violence committed against women, which makes it impossible to design plans to eradicate gender violence in that area. For this reason, the present study aims to identify the presence of violence in heterosexual couples from the perception of women between in the “La Lolita” sector of the Bucay canton. For this, a questionnaire was applied to a sample comprised of 15 women who met the criteria required for this investigation. As a result, it was obtained that 40% of the respondents had suffered some type of violence by their partner, 20% were immersed in the cycle of violence and 17% of them were at a high level of risk, it is say that acts of violence of your partner can lead to femicide.