Narrativas de mulheres-engenheiras sobre formação profissional e mundo do trabalho: reflexões e contribuições para o curso de Engenharia Civil de um Instituto Federal

Abstract

Despite the female achievements, in the context of their insertion in the academy and in the world of work, there is a greater occupation of women in courses and jobs that refer to the extension of socially constructed attributions as feminine. This dissertation was born from the investigative effort to analyze the relationships involving symbolic gender violence against women in a Civil Engineering course. The objective is to answer the following question: what are the reflections and contributions revealed by the narratives of female engineers and the documental corpus, about the relationship: curriculum, gender and male domination? A qualitative approach was used, in which bibliographical, documentary and narrative research were conducted, with two distinct groups of female engineers, two undergraduate students of the Civil Engineering course and two servants of a federal institute. Data construction was based on narrative interviews; The analytical treatment took place in the light of narrative analysis, taking as reference the relations of power and domination that marked the life story of these women. The following results were obtained: a) women were an absolute minority in the formation of the Civil Engineering course; b) had to impose themselves in their relations, especially in the world of work to achieve demarcation of their space; c) experienced situations of devaluation of their speech, as well as intimidation; d) did not report feeling symbolic gender violence by teachers and classmates; e) considered the curriculum of the course neutral, without pointing out elements that could reinforce the symbolic violence of gender and, finally, f) in all narratives situations of overcoming of challenge appeared mainly in the world of work. From this, we obtained an Educational Product, characterized as a video documentary, revealing the life stories of the women engineers interviewed. The documentary presents a theoretical contextualization about symbolic gender violence, based on Bourdieu (2002) and the curriculum, about its non-neutrality, based on Tadeu Silva (2009), about the need for discussions about gender inequalities for the construction. a new curriculum covering femininity and masculinity.