Piso pegajoso, teto de vidro, penhasco de vidro e a síndrome da abelha rainha: a mulher no mercado de trabalho

Abstract

In Brazil, women emerged in the labor market from the 19th century onwards, their participation grew significantly in parallel with the demand for the workforce as a result of industrial expansion and urbanization. The workers are understood as a secondary workforce, which has a transitory character, due to the social construction and sexual division of labor, understanding her as an individual naturally assigned to the performance of functions related to the care of the home and her family members. It is assumed that women inhabit the productive environment only while the man is not able to support his family. Prejudices regarding women's work are present in the labor market. In this way, we sought to find out the advance of theoretical concepts about women in the labor market, with the purpose of illustrating the path taken by women since the search for their insertion in this market. Using data from the continuous PNAD IBGE and some empirical studies, it was sought, in addition to exposing the main barriers encountered by the female workforce, to demonstrate the application of theoretical concepts about women in the labor market. For this, the methods of descriptive analysis and exploratory analysis, bibliographic and documental research, in addition to descriptive statistics were used. Thus, we can see the stagnation of the percentages linked to the occupation of jobs by female labor and the permanence of gender stereotypes that reinforce the barriers that hinder the mobility of workers, as exposed by the metaphors presented.