espanolEste estudio pretende comprender y describir las experiencias de vida de las mujeres jefes de hogar de familias monoparentales que laboran en la empresa SOTRAMES S.A. El estudio se desarrollo por medio de una metodologia cualitativa, enfoque fenomenologico de nivel descriptivo, apoyado en la realizacion de entrevistas semiestructuradas a quince madres jefes de hogar, donde compartieron sus experiencias de vida con relacion a aspectos familiares, laborales, personales y existenciales. A partir de esto, se logro conocer y valorar a fondo sus realidades, llegando a la conclusion que el ideal de familia impuesto por la cultura y la academia transversaliza profundamente su discurso, enfatizando la necesidad del padre en la familia, pero sus experiencias de vida develan que han logrado brindar dinamicas familiares funcionales y sanas. EnglishThis study looks to comprehend and describe the life experiences of women head of household of one-parent family that are employed of SOTRAMES S.A., it was developed by a qualitative methodology, focused on phenomenology and described analysis, based on the realization of semi structured interviews of fifteen mothers head of household, that shared their own experiences of life in relation with family, labor, personal and existentialist aspects. From this, it was achieved to know and value their own realities, getting to the conclusion that the ideal of family that has been imposed by the culture goes through their speech showing an emphasis of the father necessity, but their own experiences of life had shown that they have accomplished to being a functional and healthy family dynamics.