THE SOCIAL SERVICE IN PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION: A DISCUSSION ABOUT OF THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF WORK

Anchored in materialist feminism, having as theoretical basis the Sexual Division of Labor, the present research is inserted in Line III: Formative Processes in Professional and Technological Education of the Post-Graduate Program in Technological Education of CEFET-MG and problematizes Social Work in Professional and Technological Education. It aims to contribute to academic discussions on the sexual division of labor in the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education (RFEPCT) through the understanding of the sex/gender social relations that develop among professionals who work as social workers in institutions from the Web. The determinations and main implications of the division of labor between the sexes in the Social Work profession in the RFEPT is the guiding question of the present study. In order to arrive at the answer to this question, other questions permeate the research: how did the social relations of sex/gender and the sexual division of labor develop historically in the formation and performance of the Social Work profession? What are the profiles of social workers who work at the Federal Institution of Vocational and Technological Education? How does the sexual division of work materialize in the social relations between the sexes in these spaces and in this specific profession, and how are they experienced by Social Work professionals? A qualitative approach was adopted, in a case study and, for a closer approximation of the object of study, a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were carried out with professionals from the Institution locus of empirical research. The analysis of empirical data was carried out in the light of the Theories of the Sexual Division of Labor of French origin, based on a dialectical understanding of social practice arising from the historical materialist. One of the conclusive approaches points out that the expressions of the sexual division of productive and reproductive work of and of Social Work professionals in Vocational and Technological Education show great demands and challenges for its deepening and also for the process of renewal of the profession, in the rupture of oppressions. and in search of human emancipation.