O contributo das mulheres nos movimentos sindicais em Mocambique 1975-2004

Abstract

In African societies, gender relations express and reproduce historically a patriarchal order that sexualizes the physical, social and symbolic, equally, social practices. With expressions of an essence male (public space) and a female essence (family home space or private). Portuguese colonialism had a more direct impact on the position of men, women and gender relations, not so much due to their own culture patriarchal (although it was very strong), as due to the implications of their colonial policies. With the male forced labor system (chibalo), the women were mainly dedicated to subsistence agriculture, the production of yield crops to satisfy the growing colonial demands, in terms of taxes, and the direction of home while men worked for farmers Portuguese, fishing boat owners and, subsequently, for industries In urban areas, against payment in cash or species. The government of Frelimo and OMM after independence developed strategies linked to the emancipation of the woman who were often characterized as nationalists because they did not specifically cover the issues related to the genre. Women suffered a lot of discrimination and it was about them that poverty most focused on. Where about 25% of rural households where about 80% of the country's population were headed by women who were usually in disadvantages because their tasks were linked to agriculture and the informal sector. In terms of resources for production, were more vulnerable to economic effects adverse. Structural readjustment has reached women more hardly because assumed that women had the will and the ability to trim the shocks of system and they had to get solutions for the cuts in health and Education, for unemployment and the climb of prices of a basic basket. the creation of the working women's committees in the movements unions it is possible to realize the changes that they brought them to the life of the working woman, as they passed them to the problems specific working women who were often ignored by society as well as the trade union movement, women started to have their formation of their rights and fought for equality between men and women of whom they were plasma in the legislations that were unknown due to the few Vocational Training Opportunities (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)