RESISTING TO REMAIN: Care work and the challenges for the retention of female students in the Social Work course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
Care Work; Student Retention; Patriarchy; Racism; Colonial Capitalism.
This dissertation project aims to investigate how gender inequalities in the performance of care work are expressed and impact the retention and academic trajectory of female students in the Social Work undergraduate program at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, considering the determinations of the patriarchal, racist, and capitalist-colonial system. The work adopts materialist and decolonial perspectives, considering that from them it is possible to analyze the social structure developed in Brazil and how it is politically managed through social policies and institutional confrontations. The project analyzes the conditions experienced by the students through the approach of the sexual and racial division of labor, in addition to studying the context of the emergence and development of the Social Work course, and also adopts, as a crucial part of the discussion, the relationship between student assistance policies and the national policy on care and family as a bridge to confronting patriarchal relations in the academic sphere. This work is based on quantitative and qualitative research, using bibliographic analysis and secondary data, such as the PNAD, IBGE, DIEESE databases and government ministries.