INVESTIGACIÓN PARTICIPATIVA CON ENFOQUE DE GÉNERO. LOGROS DE LAS MUJERES DE LA PROVINCIA MAYABEQUE EN EL DESARROLLO LOCAL DE SUS PATIOS Y FINCAS Participative research with focus on gender. Achivements of women of Mayabeque province on local development of their yards an farms

To carry out local development at strategies with a focus on gender, is an objective of work on local development field. From this concept, this work was developed in the municipality of San Jose de las Lajas, CCS «Orlando Cuellar» and housewives in the villages of San Jose and the comunity of Tapaste and two municipalities of Mayabeque province: Santa Cruz del Norte CCS Batabano «Jose Castellanos» and CCS «9 de Abril» with the main objective of implementing participatory activities with focus on gender, allowing the development of women within the agricultural contexts on study. This involved workshops dealing with: awareness, training and exchange between farmers, using participatory diagnostic techniques with a focus on gender, which allowed to identify the needs of men and women, to determine the roles, the sexual division of work, limiting the agricultural production and marketing difficulties. Also, in workshops were built equity indicators through the Assessment Indicators and Dimensions of Gender Equity method as strategy in the study, being selected seventeen indicators. The result of this study showed that most of the indicators were statistically different among themselves, except the indicators «Women get income from their production» and «Women and men with access to sales of products».