Interdisciplinarity and gender equity: mythological findings from of a historical-social and critical approach
International Journal of Development Research
Interdisciplinarity and gender equity: mythological findings from of a historical-social and critical approach
Received 17th December, 2019; Received in revised form 21st January, 2020; Accepted 19th February, 2020; Published online 30th March, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Ailton Batista de Albuquerque Junior et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article aims to list and discuss indispensable categories for understanding the mythology of gender equity, historically constructed in a diffuse way in common sense with apparatus in religious fundamentalism. Thus, from a bibliographical research in books, articles, monographs, dissertations and theses, it presents the genesis of inequality, based on the division of social roles with a focus on sex. Therefore, this academic structure is embodied by renowned authors such as Osterne (2011), Beauvoir (1970), Meneghel and Portella (2017), Grassi (2015), Almeida and Saffioti (1995), Balbinotti (2018), Muraro (1997), Silva and Silva (2017), Kergoat (2009), Louro (1997), Leite (2019), among others. This investigation brings to light the processes of violence against women in Brazilian society, finding progressive struggles for gender equity in a reality still rooted in the rags of inequality, multiplicity of violence and definition of roles from birth (woman wears pink). , takes care of the house and the children and man comes from the home, working out and developing activities typical of the gender), which provide gender stereotypes.