Mulheres chefes de agregado familiar꞉ viúvas, divorciadas casadas e solteiras , suas características sociais e suas estratégias de sobrevivências

Abstract

The situation of socio-economic instability resulting mainly from the 16-year war, followed after the effects of the Economic Rehabilitation Program (PRE), associated with natural factors, created conditions for the emergence of ruptures in the socio-cultural fabric of Mozambican society and consequently many families have become unstructured. Some of them are female single parents. The aim of our study is to analyze the social characteristics, the strategies and the knowledge of the logic adopted by the female heads of the household, for their survival. One of the hypotheses defined for this work is that the socioeconomic condition, the level of education, the age and the personal experience of the female heads of the household have a direct relationship with the nature of the strategies that define p / your survival. We interviewed 30 women who later grouped them into four social categories, namely widows, divorced, single and married women. Our preliminary conclusions show that these women, in the four social categories, constitute a multidimensional reality, since everything depends on the conditions created by the dynamics of a market economy like ours and by the social networks that they establish at various levels in their struggle for survival .(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)