Gênero e escolha de cursos superiores: perspectivas de estudantes de ensino médio do Liceu Paraibano

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Érica Jaqueline Soares
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4797
• topic: Gênero; Ensino Médio; Educação Superior; Escolhas de cursos superiores; Gendramento das carreiras; Gender; High school; Higher education; Higher education choices; Career gendering; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

Based on literature on gender, sex division of labor, sexist education, women s access to higher education, and the gendering of careers, this dissertation attempted to explore the implications of gender relations for the occupational/professional perspectives of female and male senior students of Liceu Paraibano, a public school in Paraiba, Brazil. It aimed to analyze whether and how gender relations condition the higher education choices of high school students. For that purpose it used both a qualitative approach, by means of questionnaire applied to 456 students, and a qualitative approach, by interviewing 20 students attending the three school shifts (morning, afternoon and evening). The questionnaire data were systematized in tables and graphics in order to characterize the students, highlighting the relationships between sex and other variables such as race /ethnicity, shift of attendance, age, socioeconomic status, occupational situation, and choice of higher education course. The interviews helped to qualify students perspectives of continuation of studies and professional training, highlighting their life projects, as well as to illuminate how gender relations cross the subjects socialization. The analysis evidenced that the gendering of higher education, which separates men (situated in technological and scientific high prestige careers) from women (situated in humanistic and health care low prestige careers), persists in these students higher education course choices, even though some changes were noticed. The intersection of sex, race /color, and shift of school attendance also showed inequalities in students aspirations. Moreover, the analysis pointed out that the naturalization of social relations and gender prejudices were present within family and school relations, creating obstacles for the deconstruction of gender dichotomies and female segregation in devalued occupations/professions