Qualidade de vida das mulheres trabalhadoras das creches conveniadas do bairro Bela Vista do município de São Paulo

This work describes some aspects of the quality of life of women working in nurseries.It aims at providing subsidies to improve work conditions in the day care center: The universe of the study consisted of one hundred and fifty four women who worked at the seven nurseries maintained• by an agreement between the local Bela Vista District Committee and the São Paulo City Hall, Brazil.The subjects were interviewed by means of a formulary in which the following variables were taken into consideration: social and demographic characteristics, personal habits and opinion, health conditions, access to health services, occupation, possession of consumer goods and social economic levei, professional life, work conditions and job satisfaction, schooling and occupation of husbands, necessity of working ali day, belonging to labor unions membership, leisure as well as knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding human rights.The results of this survey showed that the majority of the women had low educational, social and economic standards; 52,6% never ended secondary school and 20,1 % had not completed primary school.They belonged, moreover, to a low social economic class (classes D and E); 70% had children and 45% were heads of their families.Their ages varied from 18 to 61 years.As regards income, 55.0% earned 2 to 3 minimum wages per month and 25.0% earned from 3 to 4. As to their dwellings, 35.0%lived downtown, near their workplaces and others depended on transportation to get to work.35.0% of the subjects owned their homes; 27.0% lived in small apartments and 13.0% in slums.Health centers were used by 61.0% of the women and 57.0%used Emergency Units; 21.0% were enrolled in the health insurance plan of their husbands.In relation to medicai care, 70.0% prefered to report to the downtown hospitais due to the prompt attention offered by those units.Their spare time was scarce and was mostly used for leisure by Iistening to the radio or watching TV.As to reading activities, more than half of the subjects mentioned reading magazines and 45.0% books, but newspapers were hardly read at alI.On newspapers most of the women used their time in housework activities.There was a high turnover of employees in the studied nurseries; as much as 49.0% of the subjects had been working for only two years or even less and 24.0% from 3 to 6 years.As much as 60.0% of the VEJA.• 4G'~~ ~ OS f"-'-" ',\ ~ t-~"" ",51'".,:.,;.;".\ • Mulh~r e rESQülSA eXCLUSIVA lI.r., ~S ~ú\.~o~~ " ,', ' ': ' , ~ éfé)'\ S .d• Ji

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