Gender roles with more lights you shadows

Increasingly more Dominican women enlisted into the labour market, reaching cimeras positions, coupled with the relentless family role and weight of playing balance in a company, the home and society.

If they remembered times back, history seems to be the same: family responsibility, balance, honesty, and a large number of values that have characterized for centuries women.

However, modern times have made today's feminists "women's pants", catalysts business, family unity, and the burden which involves two budgets at the same time independently adjust: the House and the company.

That leadership has been recognized and an example of this is that today main business sometime associations have been directed by a woman.

As example, remember the step of Elena Viyella's beating, head of Al Conep; Yandra Portela Vila, Ligia Boneti of brave, to the u000afront of the Association of industries (AIRD); Circe Almánzar, Marisol Vicens, Maribel Gassó, norm Vargas, Lara Guerrero, in the ANJE; Margarita Mendoza, current President of the Association of women entrepreneurs (ADME); Mayra Holguín, Josefina Espaillat Nanita, the EMF; among many other Dominicans who have used their role as mothers, grandmothers, women heads of household, heads of enterprises or part of the directive of entities like Conep, AIRD, AEIH (Herrera companies); Codopyme (Confederation of medium and small enterprises).

This is the case of Dinorah Subero Quezada, Member of the ADME and professional of chemical cosmetics, dermocosmetóloga, with a degree in production engineering, who with a vision of entrepreneurship, and a created family, founded in 1989 small enterprise of cosmetics Q & S, labs, S.R.L., bringing its productions to other latitudes as Florida, Lynn Mass, New York, Curacao and other islands, Colombia, Chile, Panama and u000aHaiti.

Today employs 18 people and contracted out many more. Exports to the United States. UU., Puerto Rico, Haiti and Panama and produces Q & S, Infinitivelive, Bee Life, Opal, Noni.line, Dessel, and other brands.

As most of the women who run small businesses, faces the same problems of funding, reaching put as collateral a family for a loan good formal.

This is compounded by the costs generated by the electric, problem increases in prices of inputs and fuels, social security and taxes.

"Requested loans have had to be endorsed by my husband;" for example, to obtain a loan for the expansion of the fá-factory in Promipyme, first, the amount was negligible; "second, had to give an endorsement, equal amount of money from a family certificate," asserted.

, is a member of Codopyme. He studied accounting, and is general manager of Incadi (SMMEs Training Institute), and is u000adivided "into multiple pieces" to deal with corporate responsibilities and provide the family quality time

Due to ignorance in many cases, "we pay taxes more, and are subject to fines and penalties for non-compliance". In the order of social security, understands that it should exist a special social security scheme, argues.

Luisa María Velázquez, Promipyme factory, first, the amount was negligible; second, had to give an endorsement, equal amount of money from a family certificate", stated.

, is a member of Codopyme. He studied accounting, is general manager of Incadi (SMMEs Training Institute), and is divided "into multiple pieces" to deal with corporate responsibilities and provide the family quality time

Due to ignorance in many cases, "we pay taxes more, and are subject to fines and penalties for non-compliance". In the u000aorder of social security, means that it should exist a special social security scheme, argues.

Luisa Maria Velazquez, President of laboratories San Luis, s.a., founded in 1945, began with five employees, today employs 87 and exports to Haiti has had difficulties in financing? No, we have always received full support of financial institutions national.

To obtain credit, they have needed the endorsement of the male sex, husbands or brothers?
Never. In our particular case, since 1978, our mother and a servant take the reins of the company, in which we have not been underestimated; Instead, we have always received treatment fair and sometimes, even special, being ladies.

What are their difficulties with regard to cost of production?
Those that affect the industry in general: electric power, fuels, raw materials and inputs. It belongs to the industrial-manufacturero area and markets u000apharmaceutical products

VICENTA RAMÍREZ, is Directive of CODOPYME
director: Vicenta Ramírez Rodríguez is the Executive Director of the Codopyme. He studied modern languages. Along with this responsibility coordinates and directs technical work, conferences and workshops.

Madre: combine paid work with the mother is no easy task, since the work is doubled. And the hardest thing is that it is his "only face" for her daughter for five years, Alexa, who invents a thousand stories and changes of behaviour because you not collect it within the College.

Costo: the electricity problem affects the operations of the business, Wendy Martinez, is the Manager of Incadi Se graduated from accounting and empowers SMMEs, to make them more competitive.

Is member of the Codopyme. He believes that electricity is a great cost.

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