Persistências e rupturas das desigualdades interseccionais na inserção de mulheres negras na pós-graduação nas áreas de saúde nas áreas de saúde e ciências biológicas da UFBA (2015-2022)

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the inclusion and permanence of black women in four stricto sensu postgraduate courses in the area of Health, namely: Biological Sciences, Nursing and Health, Medicine and Health, and Public Health at UFBA, from 2015 to 2022, with aim of identifying possible persistence of interseccional and structural inequalities in these courses. This is a qualitative and quantitative research, which has benn anchored in discurssions that havealready been accumulated on the theme of racial inequalities in access tho Education. The censuses of the MEC, INEP, IBGE and CAPS were used to map the number of black students recently enrolled and/or graduating in postgraduate courses in the mentioned areas. We also discussed the narratives of eight cis, black women, master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral students in graduate programs, through semi-strutured interviews conducted remotely and in person. Given the information analyzed, it was possibilite to conclude that there is a “scientific loneliness” that permeates the trajectories of the women interviewed, due tho the lack of representation in academic and professional spaces and in citation policies. It was also identified that all students accessed the vacancy reserve for black people, most went through a hetero-identification board, and those who requested it had access to the scholarship. Therefore, I understand that, with these results, affirmative actions in graduat studies are, to a certain extent, being implemented, and there is still a need for greater monitoring regarding the permanence of students in stricto sensu courses in the health area at UFBA. Ih was also observed that access to educational spaces has provided a change in the economic status of the women, but this does not prevent them from being victims of racism and sexixm in the academic and professional spaces.