Level of violence against women in trade union Vallecito, Juliaca

Abstract

The present work is an investigation based on the study of violence against women, whose main objective was to determine the level of violence against women in the union of mixed merchants El Vallecito in the district of Juliaca, 2021. This was made up of a finite population made up of 70 associates, of which 35 women were taken as a sample, a survey was applied as a technique and as an instrument was a measurement questionnaire with 41 items on the Likert scale: never, almost never, sometimes, almost always and always. The variable violence against women has 4 dimensions: physical violence, verbal violence, sexual violence, and violence by omission. The methodology was quantitative descriptive, not experimental, cross sectional; taking as a level of values: low, medium and high; which were represented textually and by graphics. Consequently, the results obtained at the low level is 68.57%, at the medium level it is 22.86%, and at the high level it is 8.57%. In conclusion, the general level of violence against women in the union of merchants El Vallecito, district of Juliaca, 2021 is low.