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| Jewelery |
- Presence from women is focused in small and medium enterprises.
- Near 80% of SMEs are headed by women that assume management and manufacturing.
- A high percentage of women’s employment in the manufacturing process is observed.
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Crafts |
- A small-scale activity regarding its manufacture and commercialization.
- In this area, women concentrate manufacturing, commercialization and business management tasks.
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Clothes making |
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Women management of this sector outstands on the area of commercialization: women account executives
- Women outstand in the manufacturing processes, quality control, design and management
- Women are in charge of carrying out the selection and classification of alpaca fiber.
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| Agriculture/agroindustry |
- Women outstand as business owners and union leaders in flower and natural products export companies.
- This sector intensely employs women in different stages of manufacturing.
- More than 60% of the labor for agricultural-export sector is performed by women.
- In the harvest of grapes, women represent more than 70% of labor.
- Quality control of asparagus is supervised mainly by women. During the parkingstage, women represent more than 90% of labor.
- There are 26 coffee and cacao women’s committees in the National Coffee Board.
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Fishing and aquiculture: |
- Women perform a very important role processing fishing products.
- In fish and sea food freezing plants, tasks related to the selection, cutting into slices, conditioning and packing of prawn, scallops, giant squid, squid, fish and seafood fillets are totally made by women. Something similar occurs in the canned food industry.
- At the professional level, many women with careers related to biology, fishing and aquiculture engineering carry out process control tasks, quality control, sales and export logistics.
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Source: Adex, PROMPERU, MIMDES |
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