Perspectivas das relações de gênero durante a pandemia de COVID-19 por jovens da escola pública

Abstract

This master's thesis discusses the expressions of hegemonic masculinity in the daily life of young high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the different manifestations of sexism in questions related to changes in daily life caused by physical distancing and home isolation. The hegemonic masculinity category is adopted to analyze the process of reformulating everyday life, reducing social participation and producing gender inequalities that groups of young boys and girls reported experiencing during the pandemic period. The methodology considered the elaboration, conduction and critical analysis of workshops and focus groups carried out with young high school students. All of this material was transcribed and analyzed based on theoretical references from social occupational therapy and gender studies. Among the considerations reached in this research, the recognition by the perspective of young people of inequality between genders, already existing before the pandemic, but aggravated in this period, leading to a limitation of social participation of girls and an overload of responsibilities associated with the household and the care necessary to prevent COVID on them. Another noteworthy aspect is in relation to the outlining of the contributions that social occupational therapists can offer in the field correlated with youth and school in the sense of creating and implementing intervention strategies capable of problematizing and building critical and reflective readings on the different expressions of masculinities, about sexism and the feminist struggles undertaken to equalize the differences between the genders. Therefore, we sought to understand the ways in which the social construction of the concept of masculinity is expressed and impacted on the daily lives of young people during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to develop strategies for problematizing the theme of masculinity and gender inequalities, aiming to provoke the elaboration of new conceptions of masculinity based on gender equity, using notions belonging to social occupational therapy, addressing issues related to gender inequalities and the production of care practices and with a view to promoting social justice.