Feminização do envelhecimento populacional em Parintins: análise do perfil sócio demográfico

Abstract

The world population is aging and we can say that, in contemporary times, this phenomenon has a predominant characteristic, which is the feminine gender aspect. Considering this phenomenon and in view of the struggle of feminist movements in search of women's emancipation and gender equality rights, through public policies. In this sense, this work aims to analyze, based on the sociodemographic profile of the population in Parintins, how the phenomenon of feminization of aging is characterized, as well as, based on census data, to emphasize the cultural, social and economic aspects that may have an impact on this profile. This article was based on documentary and bibliographic research and the analysis was based on the successive approximation of the data with the social and economic context of the reality in which the research objective moves. The work is divided into two topics that correspond to the presentation of the data. The first item provides a contextualization of female old age in the Brazilian context and a discussion about public policies for women from the perspective of generational debates in feminist movements. Topic two provides data on the panoramic sociodemographic profile of the phenomenon of the elderly female population of Parintins, Amazonas. It is concluded that the feminization of old age in the municipality of Parintins, Amazonas, is becoming a latent phenomenon, but it still needs to gain greater visibility, discussion in feminist theories and, above all, greater attention in terms of public policies, given that social problems in old age affect mostly elderly women, such as issues of violence, prejudice and social vulnerability.