THE WOMAN IN THE INFORMAL TRADE IN THE CITY HUANCAYO

Abstract

At the moment in the city of Huancayo one comes increasing the woman's participation in the informal trade. This social phenomenon has originated dives in the streets of more commercial movement. Of 100% of informal merchants, 90 % of merchants is women and only 10% males. One of the causes of the informal trade is the poverty, it lacks of employment, the low revenues and the tributary overload that it doesn't allow them to be formalized and to consent to a fixed establishment with the conditions adapted in appropriate place the woman's insert in this sector it is to contribute to the family economy when the family boss's entrance is insufficient, or to maintain to the family when it is the only support. The entrance that you/they obtain is less than the vital minimum wage. These women work in the streets under conditions infra human for lack of an appropriate place. They generally have a capital from 50 to 350 “Nuevos Soles”, it is only an occupation for the family subsistence. Most of the travelling women have a load of debts. No institution is interested in the well-being of this social group. They work in exclusion conditions and social imagination. They lack credit support that you/they grant the financial entities The level of these women's education it is of primary and of secondary I complete.  The problems of the informal women are associated to the, absence of an appropriate place, competition among the salespersons, low revenues, the municipal policemen's abuse, the fiscal and administrative obstacles.