Perfiles de mujeres jóvenes rurales de baja cualificación. Un estudio de caso para la comprensión de sus estrategias de inserción sociolaboral en Asturias (España)

Abstract

The Spanish rural environment is predominantly masculine mainly because of the selective exit of qualified women. The young women who stay today in the rural areas constitute the basic generational support in order that the rural environment continues surviving. These women have bad level of education, they have worse working conditions and they suffer problems of insertion. These young women have peculiar difficulties to take decisions on her personal and labour future but they have not been analyzed in depth. This article analyzes this group of women to know the form in which they confront her specific conditions as young, as women and as rural. Using a qualitative method we can affirm that the rural young women of low qualification have three basic supports on which to seat her future: the family, the work and the territory. These three social dynamic anchorages offer them opportunities and difficulties.