Entrepreneurial Nursing interventions for the social emancipation of women in recycling.

Dirce Stein Backes,Andreas Büscher,Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann,Giovana Batistella De Mello,Lisiane De Borba Müller,Mara Regina Teixeira Caino Marchiori

doi:10.1590/1980-220x-reeusp-2021-0466

Abstract

To implement and signify entrepreneurial interventions in Nursing, with a view to the social emancipation of women working in an Association of Recyclable Materials. Action-research with an intervention process based on an action alluding to Mother's Day, carried out in a pandemic period, with the participation of 28 women from a Recycling Association. The reflexive thematic analysis, which enabled the systematic recording of ideas, insights and the meanings of the intervention, gave rise to two categories: From apparent isolation to professional reinvention and from invisibility to dignity and the feeling of social equality. The interventions carried out in an Association of Recyclable Materials in a pandemic period provided, for its female workers, a sense of life, survival, dignity and empowerment, when they expected little or nothing. Enabling a social identity for the women of a Recycling Association implies, in short, overcoming linear interventions focused on assistance.

Highlights

The Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the new coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2, triggered doubts, uncertainties, social distancing, unanswered questions and, at the same time, required professionals to reinvent themselves and led to an incessant and systematic search for strategic solutions to face multiple demands
Considering the Sustainable Development Goals – 2030 Agenda, which stimulate a healthy lifestyle and well-being for all citizens, the question is: How to ensure a healthy life and contribute to the social emancipation of women who work in an Association of Recyclable Materials in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic? the objective of this study was to implement and signify entrepreneurial interventions in Nursing, with a view to the social emancipation of women working in an Association of Recyclable Materials
The organized and analyzed data resulted in two thematic categories: From apparent isolation to professional reinvention and from invisibility to dignity and the feeling of social equality

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Introduction

The Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the new coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2, triggered doubts, uncertainties, social distancing, unanswered questions and, at the same time, required professionals to reinvent themselves and led to an incessant and systematic search for strategic solutions to face multiple demands. Businesses in general were affected, but the situation got worse and magnified the already existing social problems[1,2] In this context, social entrepreneurship emerged as a possible and viable alternative to support people’s needs and improve the living conditions of vulnerable populations, such as the women of an Association of Recyclable Materials, who are the object of this study. Social entrepreneurship is a new archetype of development in networks and partnerships, with a focus on human, social and sustainable dimensions. It is characterized as a mechanism of social mobilization that can support the confrontation of social problems in a creative, innovative and transforming way[5,6,7]

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