BETWEEN DREAMS AND CRISES: SQUADRINIZING THE ACADEMIC IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC BY COVID-19 ON THE LIFE OF BRAZILIAN POST-GRADUATES

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated modern socioeconomic crises and made it possible to glimpse more clearly the antinomies that already existed within capitalist societies. In this hiatus, the challenges faced as a result of the ongoing pandemic crisis are evident in the abrupt changes in modern daily life, produced and felt in different ways, given the changes in the planning of personal, collective and institutional actions. The necessary measures to suspend face-to-face activities and restructure and / or cancel the academic calendar taken by Brazilian universities, in line with national and international health authorities, triggered changes in the lives of masters and doctoral students in the country, a category that despite being commonly seen as privileged has suffered several inequities in recent years. At this conjuncture, we have established to analyze the impacts of the pandemic Covid-19 in the life of stricto sensu graduate students in Brazil. The survey is characterized as a quanti qualitative and the data collection was performed virtually, through SurveyMonkey and received 114 valid responses, 71,93% of which were carried out by women. The age range of the participants varied from 22 to 60 years old, from 17 different Brazilian states. Among the results, as we analyzed the average hours devoted to the activities by the participants before and during the pandemic, we concluded that women already showed an average workload of 13 hours more than men before the pandemic and that the hours devoted to domestic activities during the pandemic increased by an average of 6 hours for them.