Resumen

MONTILVA, Maira. Postponing Motherhood by Professional Young Women in Two Latin-American Metropolis. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2008, vol.13, n.41, pp.69-79. ISSN 1315-5216.

In this paper, reasons of postponing motherhood by professional young women are explored and related with changes of course in their biographies, especially with those sociologically associated with individualization, by means a qualitative research on this demographic group in Caracas (Venezuela) and Santiago (Chile).

Palabras clave : Postponing motherhood; individualization; Latin American; women.