A vivência de mulheres em cargos em cargos executivos em grandes empresas: uma análise interseccional das desigualdades de gênero e de Raça

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Edilene Machado [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134120
• topic: Igualdade; Relações de gênero; Raças; Racismo; Discriminação de sexo contra as mulheres; Negras; Equality

This study focuses on the occupational trajectory of women who rose to executive positions and different ways of coping with institutional racism and gender bias in the workplace everyday. This research proposes a sociological approach in order to analyze the issue of gender and racism in the business world, taking as a backdrop the cities of São Paulo and Salvador, as are the capitals with the highest number of black and brown in Brazil. I look from the paths of black, brown and white executives who hold executive positions in large enterprises. Focusing on executive positions in the corporate world in order to check the different ways that these women trailed to maintain or ensure their professional mobility. It sought to further identify whether racial phenotypes influence, help or hinder the rise in the professional career. Having symbolic violence as a theoretical north, was intended to realize the criteria and requirements adopted in the selection of workers to take up posts and executive positions in the labor market in public companies, private and / or mixed in São Paulo and Salvador; what being black, brown, and white in the corporate world and how to live the experience of racism. He sought dialogue with the literature on racial and gender discrimination in Brazil, providing a historical survey of the experiences of Brazilian women. In terms of theoretical framework, we worked from the perspective of black feminism in the Brazilian context, dialogue with the reflections of Brazilian and American writers who were pioneers when working at the intersection of the categories of race and gender and to point out the interference of these categories in the lives of black and white women, resulting in unequal opportunities for one or the other. Generally speaking, it was noted in interviews that the labor market is still macho and sexist. The females still weighs on the company's leadership decision for the choice of executive...