Pattern of insertion of black women in the northeastern labor market: notes for the period 2005-2014

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Christiane Luci Bezerra
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Alencar, Jaqueline Kelândia Ferreira, Pinheiro, Valéria Feitosa, Mota, João Luís do Nascimento
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/15382
• topic: Black woman. Labor market. Northeast.; Mujer negra. Mercado de trabajo. Noreste.; Mulher negra. Mercado de trabalho. Nordeste.

This essay aims to understand how the insertion of black women in the labor market in the Northeast has been processed. Descriptive methodology is used, based on literature review and secondary data analysis, which occurs from the perspective of race and gender, through the definition of four categories: black women (black and mixed race), non-black women, men black (black and brown) and non-black man. The data come from the microdata from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), for the years 2005 and 2014. The results show that the improvement in economic conditions and the labor market experienced in Brazil, especially in the 2000s, they expand the opportunities reserved for women and extend, albeit in a different way, conditioning a new pattern of insertion of black women in the labor market. However, despite the indisputable improvement in a set of indicators related to black women, such as the best growth rate of the employed population, a more intense drop in unemployment, a greater variation in the average years of schooling, in addition to significant gains in participation in better bands In terms of schooling, the face of unemployment and informality is still black and female, which demonstrates the long way to go in search of more inclusive and focused policies for the elimination and not just smoothing disparities and segregations.