Mulheres gerentes: construindo as identidades de gênero no trabalho

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Nereida Salette Paulo da
• Orientador(a): Hanashiro, Darcy Mitiko Mori
• Banca de defesa: Angelo, Margareth , Tonelli, Maria José , Teixeira, Maria Luisa Mendes , Melo, Marlene Catarina de Oliveira Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Administração de Empresas
• Departamento: Administração
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: identidade de gênero; mulheres gerentes; interacionismo simbólico estrutural; maternidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: gender identity; manager women; structural symbolic interactionism; grounded theory; motherhood
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23168

This study investigated how gender identities of women in managerial positions are constructed at work by means of interactions. In contemporary societies, women are reaching increasingly higher positions in the hierarchy of organizations. Although there is a consensus that the construction of gender identity is a negotiated process with the environment, it is still poorly explored how this process occurs in organizational settings. Some studies suggest that during their careers advancement women become masculinized in order to adapt to the prevalent male models of most of organizations. In contrast, other investigations show that the better representation of women in upper hierarchical levels of organizations leads to a feminization of the concepts of management, reduces sex-roles stereotypes and contributes to less problematic gender relations. The study did not depart from a hypothesis, but from an exploratory investigation seeking to understand what factors may be present in this process and how they interact. For this purpose we opt for the methodological qualitative approach of Grounded Theory guided by the theoretical framework of structural symbolic Interactionism.The data was obtained from in-depth interviews with 13 women in managerial positions of medium and large companies in the state of São Paulo. Comparative analysis of the data enabled us to propose a model that places the need to deal with the conceptions and experiences around motherhood as the central element of the construction of multiple gender identities. This process is mediated by a dynamic and ongoing self-assessment of self-efficacy in the performance of role identities that provides conditions for reconfiguration of meanings and identities.