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
