Girls invadind the male space:Technical School of Society of Assistence of Coal workers in years 1970s

Abstract

The Sociedade de Assistência aos Trabalhadores do Carvão – SATC (Society for Assistance for Coal Workers and its acronym in Portuguese) was created in 1959, by an initiative of the Industry of Coal Extraction in Coal Region in Santa Catarina, in order to attend the coal workers both in assistance field and in education to qualify worker to the Market. Only in 1975 the School opened its doors to the insertion of women in a space predominantly male until time. This study aimed to investigate the presence of first female students in Technical Courses of SATC in the early 1970s from memories of four alumni, three managers and one professor, as well as official documents from SATC collection and from newspapers of that time.