TRABALHO E MATERNIDADE:DESAFIOS PARA A MULHER NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand the challenges that mothers are experiencing through the ages concerning the relationship between working outside the home and motherhood. Thus, there was a historic restoration on the representations of motherhood and women, from Brazil to the colonial days. Then worked up through interviews with 18 subjects, divided into three categories, where there is an analysis of ways to confront the challenges that the work and motherhood impose on mothers who work outside. As expansion of the study, bibliographic searches present a brief history and a brief analysis of the concepts of feminism and gender. At the end of the work could see that there were many changes in the social representations with respect to the roles established for women in Brazilian society. However, these changes do not always mean improvements for women.