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indicators show that rural women have lower development conditions than men of their own community

Although the main role of women has exceeded the ancestral thought the housework pigeonholed into

Sonia Montaño, Director of the Gender and Development Unit - UNITED NATIONS, Delfina rods, Rural Development Coordinator MIMDES, and Jeanine Anderson, researcher PUCP, discussed "at the close of the Seminar International Rural Women. Change and persistence "- on public policy model Peru and Latin America, and the impact it has had increasing involvement of rural women in this field.

For Jeanine Anderson (PUCP) the government's job is to anticipate the resolution of any conflicts that people not yet identified as problems in themselves, to generate a range of policies for the rural population. "Governments should provide policies to provide proposals beyond the demands of the population," he said.

On the participation of women in rural and regional policy said it is inaccurate to try to make the rural woman in a faithful copy of the urban women. "Rural women play a dual role in society. Not willing to leave his role as active woman, producer and manager of your home, to adopt a passive, consumer telenovelas, alienated from the capital. Today's woman develops integrated leadership within the family and community, "he said.

According to the representative of MIMDES, Delfina rods, is part of government administration, developing public policies are different for each type of population and multicultural identity that exists in our country, however the legal framework Peru is still incipient in this area. However, he mentioned that since 2004, have been working on policies relating to poverty alleviation, food security and national competitiveness strategies and rural development.

Meanwhile, Sonia Montano (CEPAL - UN) said that we are facing a paradox of social and political development, where the leading role of women has been achieved ruptured ancestral thought that the box only to domestic work. However, indicators show that the situation of rural women still worse off than men in their own communities. Are poorer, more illiterate, undocumented, have large numbers of children, high maternal mortality rates, less access to jobs, lower wages, among others.

Thus, "rural women symbolize the defense of public policies, for they represent everything that a country needs and their work not only helps your revenue home, but also represents an important contribution in the fight against poverty in a country, "said Montano.

According to ECLAC studies, it is proven that without the work of women, the poverty figure would be 10 points higher than that today exists in Latin America. Moreover, its performance has contributed improving environmental awareness.

Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay are the country with the lowest index of rurality and poverty, because they have been included in a public policy that protects the right of women to perform unpaid work, to receive a minimum pension for each child born alive, which removes the vulnerability to poor and rural women.

To Montaño, it is necessary to end "the politics of a state fails, the policy of no policy" that prevails in other countries in the region does not contribute with development. We need an integrated system of employment generation that does not discriminate on gender, nor underestimate the ability of women reaching only as recipients of basic social benefits.

"Women today not only bring more revenue into the house, also give added value to the wages of other family members, as unpaid work, defined as domestic work, is a contribution to the household it is necessary to recognize, "he said.