Unemployment and Social Development of Single Mothers in the Barrio Los Artesanos, Canton Montecristi

Abstract

The present work analyzes the unemployment in the social development of single mothers in the neighborhood Los Artesanos of Montecristi canton, year 2023, it was important to analyze the social reality, that is linked to the humanistic career which allows to have a critical and prepositives reflection on various situations that occur every day. The purpose was to know the factors that affect unemployment in social development, to specify the causes and consequences that unemployment generates and in the same way to know the conditions in which single mothers live. A qualitative approach methodology was used, the design was based on the phenomenological theory and the method was inductive where the experiences of single mothers were evidenced in which it was necessary to have more general conclusions from the answers given by the key informants about the problem to be treated, The key informants were ten single mothers in the neighborhood of Los Artesanos in Montecristi canton, the choice of key informants was a random population where they were selected at random within a large group in which it was necessary to infer conclusions, as a technique was used interviews and as an instrument a questionnaire of 24 open questions. As a first result, it became evident that the conditions that a single mother generally lives are to reconcile work and family life, which is presented as a very considerable challenge, since it is very difficult to reconcile work and family life, jobs with flexible schedules and access to childcare are hard to find these days