This study contemplates reports and reflections about gender in its interfaces with work/job, power and political participation of women in the Guarani/Kaiowá, Kadiwéu and Terena indigenous communities in Mato Grosso do Sul. In the specific case of Guarani/Kaiowá, women from Dourados have a more active participation in and out of the community, in the share of family incomes, and they also stimulate far more their sons to study and achieve a university degree. Among the Kadiwéu community, the most important fact is the women political power and division of roles between men and women, without valuing one role over the other. In the study on the Terena community, we observed that their close relationship with the national society has been promoting many transformations and the increase of women's activeness inside and outside their community.
indigenous women; gender; education; health; culture