FROM THE MULTIPLE VIEWS OF THE EXPERIENCES AND LIVES OF WOMEN(S): AN ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL CHOICES

UMA ANÁLISE DAS ESCOLHAS PROFISSIONAIS

Abstract

Social, cultural, and economic transformations are part of the development of every society and such changes are ruptures with the past. Given this, the industrialization processes arising from the Industrial Revolution gave new directions to societies, especially those that were emerging with the bourgeoisie. With that, women's lives also began to change, both the women of society and the women idealized in literature. We start from the novel Um Lugar ao Sol (1963), by the writer Erico Verissimo. Therefore, the objective is to analyze the experiences and perceptions of the woman (or women) related to their professional choice and their performance in the professional field. The methodological contribution of qualitative research, literture and semi structured interviewdwith we interviewed a group of 12 women from three Brazilian states: Espírito Santo, Paraná, and Minas Gerais, most of whom work as teachers, and some work in other professions, but all of them understand the relevance that work is one of the paths to woman's emancipation.