Mulheres paulistanas no Prouni: mediações entre a universidade e a precariedade

Abstract

The present paper intends to discuss the place of women students from the Programa Universidade para Todos (Prouni) in private higher education, comparing two profiles of insertion characterized by occupational area, age and location of a university campus of a large private education institution in Sao Paulo. Based on interviews and fieldwork developed between the years of 2012 and 2014, we work methodologically as a case study with an ethnographic approach, and the objective of mapping the life trajectories and world views cultivated by these women in face of themes that are central to their class places: work, education, precariousness, mobility and, of course, the sexual division of labor and the social relations of sex. As women who, concomitantly with studying and the desire for integration, re-establish the questioning of bipolarity from a singular place: occupying precarious activities, allowing social higher levels well paid work, while at the same time seeking qualification through university diplomas to succeed in getting best formalized and stable jobs typical of peripheral Fordism.