A RELAÇÃO TRABALHO-EDUCAÇÃO NA VIDA DE MULHERES VIGILANTES EM SÃO LUÍS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the job-education relationship in the lives of women whose occupation was previously the prerogative of men. This is a way, to situate the place and the social status of these women in the labor market, understand their choices. As a tool and technique of data collection used a questionnaire and Discourse Analysis. The research subjects were 20 women who work as guards in banks and government agencies in São Luís, Maranhão State. As a theoretical contribution, authors that are used as references to Discourse Analysis, working women, gender relations and dealing with working-class education. In a strive to theory and empiricism could satisfactorily contribute to the object of study. As a result, we find an adversarial relationship between labor and education categories. The school was designed by them, as a prerequisite for entering the labor market, and, due to several factors, few women continue studying, which is hardly 2% of these subjects. The work, however, has constituted, excessively, a means of survival and family autonomy. Therefore, neither work nor education perceived in most responses, has been something pleasurable for these women, nor is it related to the functional rise in employment.