Na medida do (im)possivel : familia e trabalho entre as mulheres de nivel universitario / As far as (im)possible : family and work among graduate women

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2009

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This dissertation addresses a constant issue in gender studies: the interlinkages between the productive and reproductive spheres in women s lives. The centrality of the issue reflects the importance of the sexual division of labor as a category of analysis of social reality. The focus on graduate women highlights the fundamental role of education for the expansion of the set of choices women have. This focus also emphasizes the recent changes in terms of gender relations that this group s experience represents. Accordingly, the study highlights the heterogeneity of this group, by comparing the population in different points in time - 1970 and 2000 - and in different age groups in each moment. The source of the data was the IBGE Demographic Census. The labor market variables show a convergence on the nature of male and female insertion in that same market, when comparing graduate women to graduate men over the studied period. On the family realm, there was an outstanding increase in the proportion of women who finish the reproductive cycle having experienced motherhood, despite the the fall of Total Fertility rates over the analyzed period. Considering these two realms concurrently, it is noted that wages are not always negatively related to motherhood. Furthermore, the most fundamental aspect is the moment in time in the mother s life that the child is born. These trends show that motherhood and work have not been experienced as directly opposed fields in life, particularly for younger generations. In a broader perspective, the studied group conduct to the relativization of some general ideas about women behavior in productive and reproductive spheres of social life. Furthermore, this approach allows assessments of the contradictions, ruptures and continuities - common elements to any process of social change - that mark the female and male identities in contemporary societies

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genero mercado de trabalho gender familia family women mulheres - educação (superior) labour market

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