Assédio sexual: o machismo que as secretárias enfrentam na profissão

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Anny Karolinny Carneiro de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/34911
• topic: Secretariado; Secretários; Assédio sexual

The inequality between men and women throughout time in society has culminated in the rise of sexist attitudes and practices in the workplace, among them, the sexual harassment, a perverse practice against women. In the context of the Executive Secretariat profession, this study aims at identifying the connection between the sexual harassment in the work of the professional woman and the machismo present in everyone’s daily work relationships. The specific objectives are: i) to identify, based upon female secretaries’ perspective, if there are incentives that may lead to a harassment situation in the relationship boss/secretary; ii) to understand what female secretaries, who suffered harassment, did when it happened; iii) to understand the possible reflections of sexual harassment in workplace. This study corroborates the intense recent discussion about sexual harassment of women and sexism in society. In addition, there is a lag of studies on that subject in the Executive Secretariat area of the Federal University of Ceará, since the last research on this topic was carried out almost two decades ago. The research is descriptive, regarding objectives, and qualitative, regarding nature. Furthermore, the research is bibliographical and documentary. A questionnaire was used to collect data. A field research with female secretaries was conducted to understand their perceptions and experiences concerning sexual harassment and machismo in workplace (GIL, 2014). Results showed that 79.3% of applicants have suffered with machismo, and 51.7% of them have suffered sexual harassment, both situations in workplace. The impunity of the harasser (51.7%) and the power hierarchy (48.3%) were the main factors pointed out as an incentive to sexual harassment by the secretaries. 56.3% of the applicants have not told anyone about the incident and 62.5% of them justified such attitude with fear of exposure. 79.3% and 69% of the applicants listed, respectively, machismo and lack of legal penalties as a reflex for sexual harassment practice. Conclusion is that there is a strong relationship between machismo and sexual harassment at workplace, which shows little progress regarding equality of rights between men and women at work.