Entrecruzamento de desigualdades: gênero e maternidade na carreira de médicas de família e comunidade

Abstract

The growing trend towards the feminization of Family Practice puts on the agenda of scholars the concern with the factors and impacts of this trend in the trajectories of female medical careers, especially those who are working in peripheral areas. The aim of the study, from which this article results, was to understand how medical women justify their choices and permanence in the Family Practice career, while working in contexts considered potentially violent. We carried out a qualitative study, which dialogues with aspects of cartography, based on interviews with eight family doctors, who settled in areas of high social vulnerability in a Brazilian capital. The analysis of the statements pointed to gender as the major axis of category of difference highlighting the momentum exercised by maternity, the concept of gender understood in its intersectional dynamics. Our study identified that the duty of care persists impacting women's decision-making, (re)defining the balance between personal/family life and (de)limiting their career trajectories.