Peruana Warmikusi

  It is well-known amongst peruvian people the damage that terrorist movements caused in our country, leaving thousands of casualties, families destroyed, massive economic crisis and a terrified population in such level that our parents remember such times as if they would’ve happened yesterday. Peruvians will never forget the fear of leaving the house and not coming back again, the fear of walking across a car that turned out to be a car bomb, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time and getting your life taken out of nowhere. Among several atrocities were committed in this time, violence against women was present in many ways during this period. We can take for example the 7426 women that were forcibly dissapeared, unfairly detained, tortured and executed. It is also believed (although is not confirmed) that all those women were also victims of sexual violence, including forced prostitution, forced union, sexual slavery, forced abortion, forced pregnancy and overall r...

 Throughout history, female sexuality has been an almost non-existent topic in society and equally, seen as a taboo. It is very important that as women we break the stereotypical constructions around our sexuality and pleasure and begin to understand it and learn from it.  PDF HERE Fröande, R., Halkosaari, N., & Hagström, A. S. (2019). The construction of women’s sexuality. En  Stokholms Universitet .

Ordóñez, V. L. (2021, septiembre 7). DOCUMENTAL PERUANAS DEL BICENTENARIO.    Youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMO4Fzg3vgo             Vanessa López Ordóñez gathers the testimony of three empowered women in positions in representative institutions, such as the Constitutional Court, the Judiciary and the Congress of the Republic. Each one relates her own testimony from a human perspective, in the core of their homes, showing themselves outside the professional role in order to relate their own experiences. But also set in their own institutions in which today they change history.   

Thank you very much to everyone for the incredible support you have given us, here we leave you our first podcast made by the two women who manage this blog, where we touch a very serious topic regarding the reality of Peruvian women. What will it be? Don't miss it! Source CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PODCAST

  This is the psychiatry thesis of Dr. María Victoria Arévalo Prieto for the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), who poses the following question.    HOW DOES THE POVERTY AND STRESS AFFECTS PERUVIAN WOMEN?                                                               PDF HERE

  The study confirms the persistence of gender gaps in income between women and men, and their growing evolution, as of 2017 between the different groups of income distribution and at the urban-rural level, reaching, for this year, values between 67% 55% in the different income segments. In this regard, it is found that the largest gender gaps in income are seen among the lowest income groups. It is evident that the gender gap in the allocation of unpaid domestic and care work and the income gap feed each other, perpetuating the disadvantaged condition of women compared to their male peers, between different income groups and at the urban-rural level. In effect, working women in households with a greater burden of members under 6 years of age and/or members between 6 and 18 years of age, and members over 65 years of age, are less likely to participate in formal labor markets compared to their peers. mens. Another result to highlight is referred to the breakdown of the gender gap....

By FemCiencias In the last few years, women are raising their voices to emphasize the catastrophic problematics surrounding them. Thanks to students determined to make a change, many universities are creating initiatives relate to this topic to help them to be more listened to. In the middle of 2019, students of “PUCP”, a prestigious university located in Lima, created a space focused on woman that were studying Sciences and the faculty of Sciences and Engineering, to learn and reflect things about feminism. Some time later it would be officially known by “FemCiencias”, creating this way a safe place for woman. Many other universities are being more open about this topic, that years ago was not really talked or taken seriously. In their principal pages, they publish posts about the importance of movements like this, their impact in the last few years and even creating specific sections for this posts, fighting for the equality and raising awarness about this problematic, that we hope o...