O MUNDO RURAL E AS ORGANIZAÇÕES DE OPOSIÇÃO SINDICAL LIDERADAS POR MULHERES

Contemplating the actions and movements around the Rural Workers Unions (STR) in the Serido and Curimatau regions of Paraiba, this paper aims to contextualize the reader in the sociopolitical universe where women entered spaces of power, resulting in the so-called Union Opposition Organizations, directed by women, between 1985 and 1995. Unhappy with the precarious conditions given to peasants and trade unionists, in addition to the exclusion of the rights guaranteed by women's unionization, women take on pioneering positions in the face of male power, which has held the boards of STRs for many years, initiating articulations by the regions in order to create groups opposing these boards. Through the masculine figure, which is still very strong within the rural world, these women are inserted in the electoral campaigns and from there they promote changes inside these spaces.