A percepção social do casamento e suas implicações na continuidade do estudo de nível de Mestrado e Doutoramento para mulheres e homens em Moçambique: o caso das Universidades Eduardo Mondlane e Politécnica

Abstract

In Mozambique women and men have the same rights and opportunities in the context of gender equality, defended by the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique of 2004. However, the path to achieve these rights and opportunities did not follow a strategy of equality at the social level, where from socialization are established the roles and relationships that women and men should have throughout life. The institution of marriage mirrors the realization of gender roles and relations through the expected behaviours in women and men in the social condition of married without exceptions, differentiating rights and opportunities originating the present study in order to assess the existing implications to continue the studies based on the social perception that men and women have about marriage. The qualitative method was used, in a descriptive approach, the information for analysis was collected through a script of interviews addressed to 19 people, 10 students and 9 Masters and Doctors of the Universities Eduardo Mondlane and Politécnica, 11 women and 9 men. For the students, the process was by volunteering, according to the main criterion: being married and for the Masters and Doctors graduated in the last 10 years, the sample was obtained from the list of professional contacts of the researcher. The conclusions lead us to affirm that there are other social perceptions about what marriage is. The families resulting from this institution maintain and reproduce gender roles and stereotypes, which ends up having diverse implications for the continuity of SS by men and women