A feminização dos meios de trabalho definidos em masculinidade: debates de normas e desenvolvimento

• Main Author: Marianne Lacomblez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2008-07-01
• Series: Laboreal
• Subjects: feminization; norm debates; inequalities; sex-specific indexes; development.
• Online Access: http://laboreal.up.pt/revista/artigo.php?id=37t45nSU5471123564569882791

Studies conducted in European Union countries show how the presence of women in certain professional areas, defined as masculine, can give rise to debates of norms and values that concern the “use of oneself” programmed by others in the workplace.This hypothesis is confronted with analyses that consider the disappearance of gender inequalities as a source of social and political development. This article intends to shed light on the arguments that support these two approaches, without neglecting the questions they raise, namely regarding the concept of “development”.