Inclusão de mulheres socialmente vulneráveis no mercado de trabalho: avaliação do Projeto Vai Maria

Abstract

This monograph has as its theme the “Inclusion of socially vulnerable women in the labor market: evaluation of the Vai Maria project”, and attempts to analyze the above-mentioned project about the role of the female gender and motherhood in the perspective of vulnerability in social inclusion through work. Considering that Vai Maria's objective is to include women mothers at work, the general objective of this work is to evaluate the Vai Maria Project, within the institutional scope of IPREDE, which formulated and implemented this Program, from the perspective of the socioeconomic inclusion of participating women. As the specific objectives, we tried to: a) discuss women and work in the contemporary context; b) analyze IPREDE's socio-political and institutional context in which the women in the project are embedded; c) analyze the content of the Vai Maria Project, its objectives, strategies, and dynamics; d) evaluate the women's perception of the Vai Maria Project. The applied research methodology was qualitative and quantitative from the perspective of in-depth evaluation. The analytical structure is divided into a theoretical discussion on the themes of gender and work, followed by an in-depth analysis of the socio-political and institutional context of IPREDE and Vai Maria. The results of the evaluation point to the effectiveness of the project regarding the education indicator of social inclusion in terms of socio-training and professional development, but point to the need for public policies for full social inclusion in all its dimensions.