Estereótipos femininos e a percepção sobre a identidade profissional do nutricionista

Abstract

In the constitution of the professional profile many individuals are faced with stereotypes socially regulated as, for example, the body appearance considered often a criterion for assessing the quality of the professional. The problematization seems to be situated in the dimension of the bond between female social stereotype and the evaluation of Nutrition area of work. In this context, the objective of this study is to verify if there is interference of the prevailing beauty standards in society in the constitution of the professional profile of the Nutrition area. This is a quantitative and qualitative study conducted through documentary analysis of job selection for nutritionists and answers to a semi-structured questionnaire available via Google drive. The survey results indicated that in the social imagination there seems to be a relationship between the anthropometric pattern of the nutrition professional and the social stereotype of thinness, culturally understood as an attribute of the professional.