visibilité du travail de la femme à Lubumbashi: parité ou pauvreté (Visibility of women's labor in Lubumbashi: parity or poverty)

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo in general and Lubumbashi in particular, the policies of squeezing and dismissing the staff set up to stem the economic crisis have put men out of work and swept aside some social and moral taboos around women's work.. Barriers that once obscured the economic contribution of women's work have collapsed. Men are forced to let women work because they are no longer able to meet all the needs of their households: clothing, food, housing, etc. They know that despite their masculine pride, their means are now limited.

The purpose of this study, on the behavior of households in times of crisis, is to see if the visibility of the work of women in the city of Lubumbashi is due to poverty or parity. Many speeches in favor of parity or gender now seem to support women's participation in the survival of their household at the same time as several theories of household survival are also developing. The importance of women's work, therefore, is clearly an unavoidable factor in the survival and security of households that must be placed in the context of parity or poverty.