Feminine trajectories from a decolonial perspective

Abstract

Women still receive lower payments, have fewer job opportunities and access less valued positions, living with discriminatory, sexist, classist and racist practices. Starting from the assumption that the end of colonization did not end with coloniality, the objective of the study is to investigate how some female trajectories are under the decolonial perspective. For this, aspects such as gender, race, class, location in the colonized global south are considered. Interviews were carried out during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then the collected material was analyzed from the decolonial thinking. As a result, work overload during the pandemic was identified, motherhood as a barrier to professional life, black women always needed to reconcile studies with work, the preference for promoting and hiring men for certain positions, which demonstrates that prejudice gender and vertical occupational segregation are persistent phenomena.