Estudio sobre las percepciones de los roles masculinos en un matrimonio joven compuesto por una pareja heterosexual de la ciudad de Guayaquil

Abstract

This project aims to understand the perspective of Guayaquil’s masculinity based on the narratives provided by a young married couple from the city. The approach is qualitative narrative, the results will be composed by interviews that will help to created short fictional stories with the informant’s experience. The results show that Guayaquil’s masculinity is in a evolution process. New generations always look for equality and co-responsibility, there are no longer any roles defined by gender. This change comes with the incursion of women in the labor world and how men had to adapt to a new lifestyle. Guayaquil’s society is quite conservative, and that makes the masculinity evolution exceedingly difficult thanks to stereotypes proposed by hegemonic masculinity ideas.