Narrativas e experiências em profissões masculinizadas: estudo de caso de um grupo de mulheres militares em Maputo

Abstract

The present work ‟Narratives and experiences in masculinized professions: A case study of a group of military women in Maputo”, aims to understand the narratives and experiences lived by military women. From the literature on Narratives and experiences in the military profession, two approaches were identified, the first of which argues that the entry of women into the military area was observed in several countries, and from the From that moment on, women began to receive military training, and the issue of gender in the Armed Forces was experienced in a harmonious way. The second shows that there is an appropriation of the issue of the traditional view of being a woman by the institution, consequently there is a marginalization of women within the military institution. These approaches allow us to perceive the life stories of military women, their experiences of integration into the military service, where in different ways they found strategies to establish their identity as a soldier within the institution and the social representations about them. In order to achieve our objective, an exploratory ethnographic research was carried out. between a group of soldiers integrated into the General Staff in Maputo City. Based on the material collected, I understood that among the participants it is evident that the relationship of women with the military institution is still related to the traditional view, where women are reserved to provide jobs seen as easy to perform due to their condition of being a woman ( traditional view), on the other hand, there is an apparent similarity with regard to the issue of opportunities within the institution. Even with this vision they experience within the institution, they seek in the profession a military identity and to establish themselves by showing their capabilities as professionals (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)