Mães na academia: relatos de experiência de maternidade em cursos de graduação

Abstract

This oral presentation will address how motherhood impacts the professional qualification process of these students, based on the mother students reports at Santa Maria University (UFSM). This research started during the final paper of the Social Science graduation course, and has for its goal to evaluate the impact of the reproductive labor during the process of professional qualification in undergraduate courses, mapping the obstacles found by these students in higher education institutions. The research has qualitative and exploratory character, with its data collection done through semi structured interviews with mothers from different UFSM educational units. Thereby, I want to demonstrate how does it matter to understand motherhood as a social element, where the supportive networks have great importance to make the reproductive labor impact the least as possible the study routine of these students. Ultimately, it will be presented the research results and some propositions that can be applied by the institutions to shelter these women.