CONQUERING SOCIAL SECURITY FOR RURAL WORKERS: A MATTER OF CITIZENSHIP

Abstract

Social security is a human right of a social nature with significant importance, especially for less
favored social classes, which evolved throughout the 20th century, however, it was only with the
advent of the 1988 Constitution that gender equality was established in the granting of the benefit.
Even so, the concrete application – whether in the administrative or judicial sphere – still
demonstrates prejudices about the rural work performed by women in a family economy, making it
difficult to grant special pensions to rural women. Through an exploratory, empirical and descriptive
research, using the method of deductive approach and the methods of historical, documentary and
bibliographic procedure, the article intends to demonstrate that the care of children and the duties of the home fall on women, making it difficult their equal access to social security benefits and,
consequently, the recognition of their citizenship.