Symbolic gender violence: a comparative study on the academic environment in professional and technological education schools

Abstract

This article aims to bring a brief comparative study on the scenario of symbolic gender violence in Brazilian educational environments, more precisely in federal schools of professional and technological education. A CBT, a dissertation and an article were chosen for the comparative study, to ascertain whether or not violence manifests itself in educational contexts and how women to stay on the chosen training path / profession face it. The chosen scenarios were institutions from two states in the Northeast - Federal University of Bahia - UFB and Federal University of Ceará - UFC and two in the South of the country, Federal Technological University of Paraná - UTFPR and the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina - IFSC. The choice of locations is justified by the possibility of comparing different regions of the country, checking whether these behaviors depend on local culture or not. Based on the theory of Symbolic Gender Violence, these surveys raised interesting questions about the most diverse forms of violence suffered by women. The instruments used were the survey of bibliographic research and the comparative study of data. The research is exploratory, qualitative and the method is dialectical. The result clearly showed us the presence of symbolic gender violence in academic settings. It also showed us that we have a lot of struggle ahead to make society aware of changes in this social relationship, which brings built-in power relations between the sexes, unevenly distributed, with women always having a subordinate position in social organization.