Divisão sexual do trabalho no campo: autonomia, emancipação e empoderamento, uma experiência de Educação Popular no RS.

Abstract

This participant research deals with gender relations in the rural context of two Agrarian Reform settlements located in the interior of the municipality of Pinheiro Machado / RS. The general objective of this research is to investigate how the gender relations were constituted and developed in the settlements of the MST, starting from the Project of Extension undertaken by UFPel, relating crafts, art and teaching in workshops of creation, through the reference of Popular Education Feminist. They are subjects of investigation women and men farmers, peasants of Agrarian Reform, of the denominated settlements Santa Inácia and Alegrias. In order to carry out this research, we start from the rural daily life, exploring the social space and the lived experiences, giving women a voice about their life and work trajectories. The instruments for data collection included talk wheels, participant observation (notes in a field diary), craft workshops, debates and lectures on gender, work and patriarchy and registration of meetings through photographs. These methodological tools had a political foundation that made it possible to discuss the importance of the research process with a perspective on intervention in social reality. The autonomy, emancipation and empowerment of those involved were sought to work, and the awareness that it is necessary to change the relations that qualify and re-dimension the triple working day of women in the settlements, integrating this cultural paradigm as a component of social relations in patriarchal capitalism. The results indicate that, although situations of inequalities and women's invisibility still prevail, in addition to the tripartite work done by them, Feminist Popular Education has made significant improvements in the reality of women's life and work, the frontiers of inequality.