Direito à educação e superação da vulnerabilidade social de mulheres em situação de violência doméstica na cidade Pelotas/RS (2006-2023)

Abstract

Women, socially, face the most diverse situations of vulnerability, for example, violence in the domestic environment. Given this, it is up to the State and society to offer ways to tackle this social problem. The social right to education helps in this aspect. Based on this, this research's main objective is to analyze, based on the responses of women who were/are in a situation of domestic violence, in the city of Pelotas/RS (2006-2022), how access to the exercise of the right to Education helps to overcome this situation of social vulnerability. In the methodology used, we opted for qualitative research, which will seek, based on responses in a questionnaire applied in digital media, to women who suffer/have suffered domestic violence in the district of Pelotas. As for the time frame, 2006 was chosen as the initial milestone, as it was the year of the entry into force of the Maria da Penha Law (Law nº 11,340) until 2023, as the final milestone, as it was the year before the conclusion of the research. The theoretical contribution is based on scholars who focus their studies on the issue of gender, on education as an instrument of female empowerment, among other collaborations. It is important to mention that, when researching with the collaboration of these women, we seek to legitimize subjects of rights who were, for a long time, silenced by violence, and who, with the collaboration of access to education, see a possibility of overcoming the situation of vulnerability who suffer/suffered in the context of the home. However, the State, through attentive listening to the desires of these women, must plan, implement and execute educational policies capable of combating the vulnerability of abused women.