DRUŠTVENA KONSTRUKCIJA ŽENSKE BRIGE U KONTEKSTU POMAGAČKIH PROFESIJA
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OF WOMEN’S CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF HELPING PROFESSIONS

Summary/Abstract: The study of the social construct of women’s care finds its origins in feminist discourse, activism, and theory. Women’s care is characterized by transgenerational reproduction, which implicitly influences the maintenance of the patriarchal social order. The most important characteristic of women’s care is the loss of part of the subject (woman) in the process of care directed towards the object of care (man). The paper points to the crucial position of the educational system in maintaining women’s care. Through the analysis of the gender structure and the number of students enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad, women students, and future experts in pedagogy, psychology, and social work, we point out the gender structure of enrolled students. The results indicate that the number of women students who enrolled in undergraduate studies of pedagogy, psychology, and social work during the school years 2017/18–2021/22, i.e., future professions in which care is practiced and redefined, is over 90%, which indicates the perpetuation of the social construct of women’s care, which originates from the family and the household and is passed on to the users of services in different systems.

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