Desigualdade de gênero nos processos de guarda em Montes Claros/MG

Abstract

Despite achievements, especially by feminist movements, gender inequalities and practices that characterize female subjection are still phenomena present in our society. Among the various contexts in which these inequalities can be produced, I have chosen to examine the inequalities in the practice of child custody. In order to carry out this research, I analyzed 200 lawsuits in Montes Claros / MG, 80 of which dealt exclusively on custody and 120 were divorce proceedings that also discussed custody of minor children. Through the result of data collection, and by mobilizing a discussion of categories and concepts on gender, their inequalities and the laws that touch on these themes, I sought to identify the processes of production and permanence of the conjunctures of inequalities, exclusion and subordination that determine roles and values for men and women in society and, in particular, in the family context. Despite the progress made in access to rights and duties, in the recognition that beings must have equality of treatment, conservative resistances still reveal themselves in various forms, still imposing a role of subjection to women. This shows the importance of studies on gender inequality, because, as we shall see, this phenomenon remains active, persistent and multiform.