Novas possibilidades para se pensar o desenvolvimento (in)sustentável: acesso e permanência de mulheres negras em cursos de graduação da Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)

Abstract

The sustainable development, when understood only under the aegis of the environment conservation and of natural resources economy, fails to address important social issues, such as equity relations, equal opportunities and minimum guarantees of access to housing, work, health, education and basic sanitation, inherent needs of all human beings. Reflecting on the importance of a sustainability that is also turned to social issues, it was sought to elucidate how development, contrary to what is conceived, is built not only through economic growth, but rather through a social prism and participatory, generating relationships of equity and equal opportunities for all. Considering, specifically, the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), the main objective of this research is to show, through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data regarding the access and permanence of black and poor women, in the scope of graduation courses, in which courses such women are in a greater / lesser representation, presenting the processes, strategies and difficulties faced by these women, to access and remain in the university, showing also the ways and with which variables such women operate in favor of obtaining academics titles. As a research methodology, an exploratory analysis was carried out with the data provided by PRG (Pro-Rectory of Graduation) of UFLA, in order to locate in which courses such women are then, after selection of a sampling by convenience a study case was conducted with structured interviews and an online questionnaire. The data obtained were examined by means of a comprehensive analysis in the light of the theoretical references adopted. It was observed that the majority of the black women collaborating in the research deal with deprivations of various orders, which stops them from accessing and staying in the most prestigious courses within the university. They are mostly in less crowded or less prestigious courses, due to the lack of basic education that can guarantee their access to the most socially valued courses. Their permanencies are equally compromised, since they deal with financial difficulties, besides having to reconcile studies, work and, in some cases, the education of their children and domestic tasks. It has been shown that, through indirect discrimination, black women are led to occupy positions of lesser social prestige, demonstrating the existence of the intersectionality between gender and breed, contributing to black women being among the most depleted social stratum of our society.