Descontruindo Amélia: análise do perfil das estudantes de graduação das Instituições Federais brasileiras

Abstract

The scholar space, as well as the labor market, has been occupied by women in Brazil and in the world throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Higher education, despite being a privileged space for human and professional education is also a space for maintaining relationships, being marked by inequalities of classes, ethnic-racial and gender, since the dynamics of exclusion external to the school space is reproduced in it. The labor world, in turn, is connected with the educational dimension, due to, in its most diverse levels, is influenced by unequal work relationships, while entering the labor market is also directly influenced by educational access inequalities, two aspects of the same totality. The aim of this research is to analyze the relations between higher education, the world of work and gender and class inequalities. For this, a study will be carried out with a qualitative and quantitative approach, with bibliographic and documentary research, with data collection by Content Analysis and Data Analysis. In the case of the latter, using the database of the V National Survey of Socioeconomic and Cultural Profile of undergraduate students of IFES (2018) on the participation of women in the labor market and in Brazilian Higher Education. The partial conclusions of the research indicate the growth of women's participation in Brazil in both the labor market and higher education, especially since the 1970s, enabling greater employment security and better incomes; however, it is also noticed a growth of women in occupations with lower security and lower quality, with high informality rates, and lower income compared to men of the same profession. Partial research also points to a sexualization of occupations within the academic space of federal institutions of higher education.