Desigualdade de gênero e a questão social: desafios do fazer profissional do(a) assistente social frente às mulheres usuárias da política nacional de assistência social

Abstract

This study concludes the course as a theoretical and practical report and aims to analyze the work processes of the social worker in front of women who are users of the National social Assistance Policy (PNAS), with a focus on Gender issue. The methodology is based on bibliographic and documentary review when using data from institutional analysis, internship plan, field journals, intervention project and final report of the curricular internship in Social work. The internship in the context of the Social assistance policy in Santa Maria-RS, a space where the concerns that delimited the choice of the theme emerged, gave visibility to the large number of women who access the equipment, programs and benefits foreseen in the PNAS . Because of this, questions and actions arose with the development of the intervention project, related to the role that women occupy in the configuration of social relations and the work of the social worker in relation to the users of this policy. With the development of the work it was possible to observe that class and gender function as the engine that generates the ideal conditions for the maintenance and reproduction of relations both in the context of private and public life. The same logic also impacts the work of professionals in the field of social policies by allowing them to sometimes consolidate situations of deprivation, exclusion and oppression of women. Therefore, the final conclusion is the importance of the theoretical and practical approximation of social workers with the gender theme in a perspective that understands it in their historical and cultural specificities strengthened by the barriers of Capitalism and patriarchy.