Rural temporalities

female work, meanings and organization of time

Abstract

In the research that undermines this article, we sought to understand the relationships between time and work through the narration of scenes extracted from an ethnographic-inspired research based on monitoring the work of women in the family agricultural context. It was found that these relationships go through the notion of climate, influencing food production and economically impacting families; that the terminology carries symbolic inheritances, for example, knowledge passed from one generation to the next; and that the use that women make of their time is predominantly filled with work activities. In other words, time is lived objectively and subjectively in a close relationship with work and its transformations have repercussions in daily life, hence the need for research that aggregates gender discussions in rural environments and contributes to strengthening public policies and enabling other uses of time for women.