ESTUDO SOBRE O PERFIL DAS ESTUDANTES-MÃES DOS CURSOS SUPERIORES DO IF GOIANO - CAMPUS CERES

Abstract

More and more, women have conquered their space in the labor market, but with this they have accumulated many functions, as the responsibilities with domestic tasks still fall, mostly, on them. This service burden usually becomes more pronounced when these women become mothers. Motherhood brings unique challenges and difficulties to her: pregnancy, breastfeeding and the availability of time to care for a child, in addition to the increase in other activities. There are countless challenges for those who decide to become a mother and even greater for those who seek, combined with domestic life, a professional training. Through education, women are empowered and can remove them from the social role of being, exclusively, producers of children and make them reach more valued social spaces. Having a degree increases these mothers' chances of entering the labor market, however, in order to reach the desired training, these women must reconcile motherhood with their academic training and this creates several obstacles, such as: less time to dedicate themselves to studies, solving family issues during class hours, concerns about the children, feeling of guilt for not having less time for motherhood, among others. Understanding the specificities of student mothers is essential for educational institutions to develop actions for the permanence and success of these women. Therefore, the objective of this work is to carry out an active search with mother-students of the undergraduate courses at the IF Goiano - Campus Ceres so that they report on their confrontations in their formative path and in this way bring light to veiled issues and contribute to a permanence and success plan for this specific group. The field research carried out is classified as qualitative, descriptive in nature, and exploratory in terms of objectives. For data collection, a semi-open questionnaire was applied via Google Forms and contact was established, individually, via social networks, through the Whatsapp platform. The research was carried out by these means due to the social distance caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Through data analysis it was observed that all research participants feel overwhelmed, that family support is essential for the success of student-mothers, that even in academia they face prejudice and although it is tiring for them, most have achieved success in his formative path.