LATENCIES OF THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM IN THE SOCIAL WORK

The projected study intends to give an account of the double position of Women Social Workers in Mexico, as recipients of possible social programs that utopically palliate their vulnerability and as professionals in a helping profession that supposes their collaboration in the personal-social development of the users of their services.The research still under development, which is presented in this article, addresses the conjunction of Mexican women Social Workers in the exercise of this profession and their diverse readings through the theories of Gender, as an interpretative framework.The approach presents several premises.First, social work is generated and developed mainly by women.Second, the feminization of the profession linked to gender socialization in actions such as helping and endless working hours, which, as invisible, are not valued or paid and culturally continue to be attributed to women within patriarchal structures.Third, the individual-professional positions of Women Social Workers, and their readings regarding their professional practice.The epistemological distances between the theory and practice of Social Work are discussed.The background of the research design is also presented, followed by the basic methodological aspects by which the study will be conducted.Emphasis is placed on the beginnings of the field work carried out at the beginning of the year 2020.The first interpretations of the data obtained from the interviews conducted and the questionnaires applied as a pilot test are discussed in depth.The Axis that was investigated was called Self-image.Woman-Social Worker, its objective was to explore the ideological, professional and gender positions, from where the Social Work services are intervened or managed.Some of the data generated and their incipient analysis are presented.It concludes with reflections on the reproduction of gender inequalities also in the Social Work profession, eminently made up of women.