ABSTRACTObjective:To implement and signify entrepreneurial interventions in Nursing, with a
view to the social emancipation of women working in an Association of
Recyclable Materials.Method:Action-research with an intervention process based on an action alluding to
Mother’s Day, carried out in a pandemic period, with the participation of 28
women from a Recycling Association.Results:The reflexive thematic analysis, which enabled the systematic recording of
ideas, insights and the meanings of the intervention, gave rise to two
categories: From apparent isolation to professional reinvention and from
invisibility to dignity and the feeling of social equality.Conclusion:The interventions carried out in an Association of Recyclable Materials in a
pandemic period provided, for its female workers, a sense of life, survival,
dignity and empowerment, when they expected little or nothing. Enabling a
social identity for the women of a Recycling Association implies, in short,
overcoming linear interventions focused on assistance.