Social relations based on sex/gender and sexual division of work in the brazilian post office: female participation, professional hierarchy and management policies

• Main Author: Tadeu Gomes Teixeira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2015-12-01
• Series: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: Correios; relações de gênero; gestão do trabalho; desigualdade.
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/20522

The focus of this article is to analyze how social relations based on sex/gender and gender images have influenced the inclusion and participation of women in the operational area of the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company (ECT). We seek to answer the following questions: How do the social relations based on sex and gender images influence the inclusion and participation of women in the state company? What is the image of women’s work in the company and how this image affects the career advancement? In what manner the union demands and the work management policies positions themselves in relation to gender issues? It is found that the workforce in ECT is mostly male and that the social relations based on sex presents a gender image among the employees, makers of labor management policies and trade unionists which associate the company work activities to men, reinforcing unequal sex/gender relations in this environment.