The coffee producing women

The purpose of this research paper is to analyze and understand the triple burden borne by women coffee producers in the department of Caldas in Colombia and how this burden increases or decreases according to the socio-economic settings where these women are situated. Coffee producing women struggle to handle multiple roles of being household heads, mothers, wives and union leaders. Following an anthropological methodology that comprehensively covers the different aspects of women's lives through four essays, this research paper intends to describe the reality of the reproductive, productive and community management roles of four coffee-growing women and their daughters. The purpose of this study is to find out how some of these roles are gendered and have a generational change that intersects with their class. Using qualitative data obtained through interviews, this paper argues that due to their economic conditions and the power dynamics between genders, some of these women face poverty and their work goes unrecognized. At the same time, it is argued that being involved in coffee production has contributed to their agency and empowerment within and outside the household.