Dilemas e vivências das jovens educandas rurais do curso técnico em agropecuária do Centro Estadual Integrado de Educação Rural de Vila Pavão - Espírito Santo

Abstract

One situation that marks the departure of rural young women from the countryside are social organizations and the sexual division of labor in the interface with gender issues. This social reproduction is also reflected in school spaces and, much more so when we refer to technical courses in agriculture in Brazil that have their historical trajectory marked by male predominance in the development of activities and in the expressive presence in technical-professional training. The general objective of this study is to investigate the situations and perspectives of rural young women of the Technical Course in Integrated Agriculture to High School of the Integrated State Center of Rural Education of Vila Pavão regarding whether or not to stay in rural areas. This research is qualitative-quantitative, exploratory-descriptive. The methodological procedure occurred through the application of a questionnaire with the purpose of identifying the profile of the young women educated in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade of the Course in 2022 and the realization of Focus Groups in order to recognize and interpret their conceptions of identities, the valorization and belonging of the rural or non-rural. As a result, I verified that the young rural students present motivations for staying in the countryside and professional choice, both common and specific, according to their life contexts. The influences of past generations, crossed by the bias of gender inequality in the rural environment, end up leading these young women to the non-succession of these roles defined by the life cycle of the rural family, thus drawing their expectations of a future outside the rural environment and seeking to aim at non-agricultural activities. Finally, I verified that gender inequality is a problem that is at the core of the Technical Course in Agricultural and Livestock Husbandry of the school in question.