Gênero e formação profissional: um estudo sobre a feminização da categoria discente do serviço social da UFSM

Abstract

This work of course conclusion, which is presented here, has the general objective to understand the aspects that configure the profile of the student category, and, later in the professional category, Social Services, mostly female. The awakening to the theme took place from the attentive reading of the research carried out in the Social Service course of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), in 2017, which demonstrated socioeconomic aspects of/Social Service students, Among them, the still striking profile of women in the course, and in addition, identified the reality experienced by the students. In this sense, it was decided to build a reflection that contemplates the particularities of the genesis of the profession in Brazil, and its conservative history, with the modifications of capital on women‟s integration into the productive sphere. The study sought to relate the data from the research “Socioeconomic profile of/the Social Services Students of UFSM”, with the survey constructed in the analysis of the Gender and Work category. It is a research focused on the theoretical-bibliographic review, which prioritizes the qualitative approach and which is based on dialectic historical materialism. Thus, it was verified that the modifications arising from the modus operandi of Capitalism, configured the female work being an extension of the work developed in the private sphere, implying in the inclination of women to professions historically linked to care. However, with the transformations in the entrance to Higher Education Institutions (IES), the profile of the student category has been changing, but even so, women are those who enter the course of Social Service of UFSM, maintaining the gender profile of the category. Therefore, understanding the research as part of the professional work of the social worker, the Social Service has a critical reflection on the aspects that historically bind the profession to care, being exercised by women, with the processes of changing the world of work.