Ser mãe, ser trabalhadora : significações do trabalho após a licença-maternidade.

Abstract

This research presents a reflection about the return to work of women after experiencing the period of maternity leave. We have as general objective to verify the sense that the work exerts after being experienced this process. The importance of this research is justified by the relevance and relevance of the subject, and also by the low scientific production in the field of Psychology. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study and had as a method of data collection individual interviews with semi-structured questions with 12 women from a small municipality in the interior of the Rio Pardo Valley and who have experienced this situation in the last two years. After being transcribed, the statements were separated and categorized according to the methodology proposed by Bardin (1977) in "content analysis".