Gênero e políticas públicas: um estudo de caso do segmento estudantil feminino de graduação na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

The school space has been occupied by women in Brazil, even if initially in a timid way, since the 19th century. This privileged space for human and professional formation is marked by class, ethnic-racial and gender inequalities, since the dynamics of exclusion external to the school space is reproduced in it. At the Federal University of Uberlândia women are majority in undergraduate courses, but it is necessary to understand the conditions and profile of undergraduate students at UFU. To this end, we will use the microdata of the Census of Higher Education of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, read from statistical software to extract frequencies and tables, we will analyze the data in light of gender and intersectionality theories. In the end, it may be perceived that female students have a profile of greater vulnerability, but take more advantage of academic opportunities. The research also demonstrated that although they are a majority and women are even more organized in the courses according to the sexual division of work, that is, there is a sexual bias in the choice of courses at the UFU.