Experiências de mulheres profissionais da educação infantil e ensino fundamental na conciliação de tarefas familiares e profissionais

Abstract

This work is based on concerns related to the issue of gender injustice and the devaluation of work carried out by women or considered for women in the public and private spheres. The objective of the work is to understand how the experiences of women professionals in early childhood and elementary education are affected by the need to reconcile family and professional tasks. As for the data collection and analysis stages, the perspective adopted is that of oral history, under the focus of new history, in Godoi, Bandeira de Mello e Silva (2006, p.182), oral history privileges forgotten, or invisible voices. Thus, from the perspective of Poupar (2014), the interview allows a deeper exploration of the actors' living conditions, being seen as an instrument to denounce social prejudices, discriminatory or exclusionary practices. Thus, the collection instrument developed was a semi-structured interview script based on the analytical categories of the approach to education, gender and care work. The interview collaborators are three women professionals in early childhood education and elementary education who experience a double working day between family and professional activities. The analysis demonstrated that women's experiences are directly affected by gender injustices and the categorization of women based on a social construction of what a woman's role should be in the professional and family spheres, mainly because they are women who practice “caring” activities in the public and private spheres. There is no certainty that these injustices can be completely overcome, as it is a structural injustice rooted in the construction of social roles and the sexual division of labor in force in capitalist and patriarchal society. However, women's experiences can be fairer through policies of redistribution and recognition.