“Entoando um canto de luta”: uma análise do processo de empoderamento de trabalhadoras rurais

Abstract

Diverse kinds of gender inequalities are experienced daily by women who are living in rural contexts. These inequalities can be justified by several factors, such as an appreciation of men's work to the detriment of women's work as a result of the patriarchal culture rooted in the Brazilian rural areas. In the face of that, this study looks at how these rural workers organize themselves and build strategies to confront and overcome these inequalities, through collective empowerment processes. ACMONM – Organized Women’s Collective Association of The North of Minas Gerais - Is an autonomous entity that aims to organize the rural women of three territories of the North of Minas Gerais, being: Microregion of Montes Claros, Alto Rio Pardo and Serra Geral. Among the various patterns of struggle of the collective, it stands out the claim for the recognition of the status as rural workers. In order to understand the process of empowerment of agriculture women, I used the methodology called oral history, through an informal conversation with three women members of the collective (each representing a territory) and the observation of meeting places of these women. Through the analysis of the narratives, I have tried to conclude that from the perspective of the women themselves, the Collective actually contributes with empowerment, with the conquest of autonomy, the valorization and the equity of the group.