As mulheres docentes na Universidade Federal de Alagoas na perspectiva de gênero e raça

Abstract

The study is about the teachers at the Federal University of Alagoas in a gender and race perspective, presenting an historical tracking that shows the social, economic and political interests which relegated women to reproductive work, demonstrating how, in social relations, the dynamics between gender are posted as power relations. It is shown how domestic work is fundamental in the reproduction of the working force and in the maintenance of capitalist sociability. In this unequal relation, the male chauvinism, the patriarchy and the racism are mechanisms appropriated by capitalism in order to formulate and accomplish the maintenance of unequal relations between individuals. In this direction, the work division reinforces the gender stereotypes that sustain the profession's feminization. On the other hand, professions considered as feminine suffer with social devaluation, resulting in the non-recognition of reproductive work to produce added value. Exploring the situation of women in the scope of work, it turns out that black women never overcame their subalternity place since the brazilian slavery period, which operated structuring a marginalized place to black people, assigning to black women the majority condition in the worst indexes of education and work. These partial results were reached through bibliographic and documentary research of an exploratory and descriptive nature, in the perspective of historical dialectical materialism, which allows the comprehension of multiple determinations that reflects on the matter of the research. The final results were obtained through the theoretical framework designed in a dialogue with data provided by the Technology Information Center of Federal University of Alagoas, which were: most socially prestigious courses are mostly occupied by man, while courses that reflect the characteristics of domestic work, such as care and reproduction of individuals it is, in its majority, occupied by women. On the other hand, it is pointed out the institutional racism inside the university, through the omission of data regarding the race category of teachers.