O(s) Trabalho(s) das mulheres professoras da fronteira Brasil-Bolívia

Abstract

The reflections presented in this research linked to the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Grande Dourados-UFGD, in the Research Line Psychosocial Processes were built from the conception of Women Teachers from the Brazil-Bolivia Frontier, specifically in the city of Corumbá. Theoretical and methodological paths were constructed by Social Psychology in dialogue with Feminist Epistemology, particularly in the area of Women's Labor Studies in a gender perspective, with the aim of understanding the sexual division of labor in the participants' daily lives and their strategies of support. The quali-quanti research was carried out through the application of a questionnaire with 60 teachers who work in Elementary School I and II in 10 municipal schools, with questions about the relationships arising from their work (domestic, care and professional), as well as through interviews with 6 teachers about the relationships built with students in the border context. The participants in our study answered questions about their daily lives, such as women, mothers and wives, in addition to being a teacher. Among the analyzed problems, we found the existence of sexist asymmetries in the unpaid work carried out in the homes of the research participants, a characteristic that demonstrates the presence of the sexual division of labor in the daily lives of these women. In practice, this means that there is no equal division in the tasks linked to family organization among members of the participating families, and housework, such as cleaning the house, washing, ironing, and cooking, is carried out by the female teachers from the Brazil- Bolivia, and their spouses only "help" with cleaning the yard, with banking, with shopping at the supermarket and with the tasks of taking and picking up their daughters from school. We understand, therefore, a naturalized condition regarding the division of domestic and care activities based on gender, and we recognize the importance of inserting the analysis of the sexual division of labor in life, in family, social and work relationships in our research.