Jefatura de hogar femenina y bienestar familiar en Monterrey. Una aproximación cualitativa.

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the relationship between female headship and family welfare by using qualitative data gathered trough semiestructured interviews to female household heads in Monterrey's poor sectors. The paper is aimed to analyze the ways by which these women reconstruct their social gender identity and organize their family strategies in order to cope with the needs they face as heads of households by considering that upon the headship experience these women reconstruct themselves not only as women but also as women who have become head of households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]