El impacto socioeconómico de la actividad industrial en la población femenina de la zona mazahua: el caso del municipio de Ixtlahuaca

Abstract

The socioeconomic impact of industrial activity on the women of Mazahua: The case of Municipio de Ixtlahuaca

The objective of this paper is to reveal the socioeconomic impact of industrial activity on women at the Municipio de Ixtlahuaca, State of México.
The manufacturing industry at the State of Mexico by the end of 2009 represented 16.6% of the total population occupied, of which men participated with 66.9% and women with the 33.1%. The industrial activity loses importance in the percentage redistribution of the occupied population by economic sectors, where commerce and services gain importance.
Notwithstanding, the economic dynamics of the region continues being determined by the industrial sector. If it is true that job increment in the industrial activity is at fewer rates than the others in the tertiary sector, the job market on industrial activities continues incrementing in much due to the women participation.
Since the 1990s the interregional labor markets are increasing, and the modern industry maintains its leadership in the accumulation process in the region. Since then, the productive heterogeneity deepens, that is, the breach between the globalized industry and the rest of it is widest. The Toluca-Lerma region and the nearby municipalities are sites where modernization processes or productive restructuring have been implemented, and the installation of industrial capital with new interregional mobility to give way and control new regional labor markets, is made by the strategy of productive fractioning.
At the Ixtlahuaca Municipality the manufacturing activity is relatively recent. Viewing the women labor from the perspective of activity sectors, they have some spaces in the industrial sector. Here we examine the repercussions of socioeconomic changes occurred from the 1990s on, where there was a period of economic restructuring and openness. The analysis based on economic censuses is clear to indicate the role of industry in providing employment by incrementing the participation of women