FROM 1969 TO 2015: OCCUPATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF WOMEN WITHOUT CHILDREN AT THE END OF THE REPRODUCTIVE PERIOD IN THE NORTHESTIAN LABOR MARKET
Fertility; Job market; Education; Income
The present work studies Northeastern women who reached the end of the reproductive period (age group 45 to 49 years old) without having children, as they are members of the workforce in the region. For this, the years 1969, 1989 and 2015 were analyzed; where the first was chosen due to educational improvements and greater job opportunities that occurred in the decade; 1989 was then analyzed, as the average age at the beginning of women's reproductive life was 30 years old, therefore, those who were in the age group of 25 to 30 years old, in 1969, would reach the end of the reproductive period in 1989; the justification for the previous year also applies to 2015, adopting an average of 23 years for the beginning of the reproductive period, women in this age range in 1989 would reach the end of the reproductive period in 2015. For the geographical cut, it was taken into account that the The Northeast region has a long history of changes in the economic and labor environment during the second half of the 20th century, making it a good field of study to analyze working women. That said, the sample was observed in the labor, educational and socioeconomic parameters, having as hypotheses a percentage decrease in the group of women with little or no education, in addition to an increase in market activity and integration into new areas previously inaccessible or little explored by women, as well as an improvement in their socioeconomic power, when comparing the first and last year under study. For this, data from the annual PNAD, made available by the IBGE, were used, studied by descriptive analysis, using the R software and using the ANOVA test for analysis of variance.