Mulher comerciária e sindicalismo: relações de gênero, relações de poder (um estudo de caso em Belém do Pará)

Abstract

This dissertation research to social and political participation of business in the direction of the Trade Union of Employees of Pará - SEC / PA founded in 1926. In 1954-1956 the first woman takes a board according to presence of gaps; 1963-1965 involved three women and a new gap, 1972-1984, four union leaders take power. Currently eight are women between nineteen directors, in all 116 men and 18 women in direction. Appropriate to evaluate the constraints of the situation, assuming that the under-representation of women is due to extra-professional activities and the pattern continued in the sexist cultural institutions. Based on analysis of two-dimensional genus of Fraser, concluded that the low presence of women in trade union power is based on responses to phenomena out of leadership roles on representations of male / female demystify the ideology of women as support to men. Although the space union men and to pass the two sexes, need to create conditions in a joint junction class / gender agenda based on union demands female, so gender makes a difference.