Gender representations within the public organizational space

• Autor(a) principal: Capelle, Mônica Carvalho Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Outros Autores: Silva, Áurea Lúcia, Boas, Luiz Henrique de Barros Vilas, Brito, Mozar José de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6437
• topic: public organization; gender relations; social representations.; organização pública; relações de gênero; representações sociais.

The increasing organizational diversity has made it necessary to create mechanisms to mediate the conflicts that result from this heterogeneity of the labor force. The growth of female labor within the organizations, added to the fact that the gender relation issue is present in society and comprises several areas of the social sciences, is part of this debate. This paper tries to unveil the social representations that are built around the organizational diversity and are linked to gender relations in a originally male organization: the Military Police. It was possible to identify a few organizational structures, policies, practices and discourses that build and reinforce the gender asymmetries in that organization.