Resumo:
This research is contained in a set of university extension projects that were carried out and
articulated by Núcleo de Pesquisa, Extensão e apoio à Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento
Rural – Núcleo Travessia and their partnerships that, with women rural from the rural
neighborhood Peroba of the municipality of Itajubá-MG, favored an interdisciplinary
discussion about the University Extension's commitment to improving the living conditions of
rural women in the context of family farming. Considering the condition of women from the
rural neighborhood Peroba of depreciation and invisibility in the activities they carry out in the
domestic and public space, the problem of the labor that resides in the family composition and
that is intensified in the local reality in which the neighborhood suffers from lack of essentials
public services, we seek to study if the actuation of university extension promoted if the
actuation of university extension promoted improved in their conditions life of the women rural
form the rural neighborhood Peroba that participated of two extension projects realized in the
years 2018 e 2019 in specific edicts of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do
Sul de Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINAS. The methodology was carried out by a qualitative
investigation of interpretative nature that a cyclic and transversal way per passed by several
interdisciplinary areas and used the technique of participatory research, observation,
conversation, and semi-structured interviews. In the final reach of this research, we found that
university extension actions did not obtain expressive changes in the domestic space because
the heavy of the household chores remained under women shoulders and with their participation
in the meetings during the years 2018 to 2019 the routine intensified. Other side we found that
although relationships prevailed at the axiom of the sexual division of labor, the extension
projects encouraged women to transform thinking and knowledge in respect of the condition of
devaluation and subjection they were within the family composition. In public space, we
identified that have been occurred changes in the reality of women from the rural neighborhood
Peroba because the socialization spaces that were provided became a guiding tool for selfreflection and for the development of individual and collective independence. We conclude that
the identified changes in the domestic and public spaces and the implications of the extension’s
projects with the women's group "Mãos que cultivam carinho" contributed to the development
of women's autonomy, which constituted a directive and viable action for the process,
individual and collective, of improvement living conditions of women in the rural neighborhood
of Peroba. Finally, considering the impacts of the whole order generated in society coming by
covid-19, we recommend that future research seek to advance in the discussion of under which
circumstances the university extension is present or not due the countless difficulties that
woman face in the field of family farming.