Os desafios e aprendizados de mulheres na gestão de organizações tradicionalmente masculinas no município de Cerro Largo - RS

Abstract

It is noticed that for many years women have been fighting so that one day they can achieve gender equality, equal pay and expand women's rights, in view of this, the present research focuses on women in the management of typically male organizations. For the purposes of this research, male organizations are those that refer to a universe more connected to the male environment, with a male image: gas stations, construction companies, mechanic workshops, quarries, automotive parts stores, among others. For that, the research question is: what are the challenges and learnings acquired by women from the experiences in the management of male identity organizations in the municipality of Cerro Largo - RS? In view of this, the present work has the general objective of understanding the challenges faced and the learning acquired by women in the management of male identity organizations at Cerro Largo - RS. Thus, the work is classified as descriptive, applied and a qualitative approach was also chosen. In relation to the population, it was delimited based on women in the management of traditionally male organizations at Cerro Largo - RS, with a nonprobabilistic sample for convenience, combined with the snowball sampling technique, thus adopting the case study multiple. In order to carry out the data collection procedure, interviews will be conducted with seven women managers. In the organization and analysis of data, five types of analytical categories were found, such as management style, the need for improvement, challenges and difficulties, learning and overcoming and sexism, each category was explained through the illustration of at least 03 mentions. And finally, in the final considerations, it was found that each woman has her own life trajectory, most discuss the fact of how difficult it is to reconcile family and career, therefore, one of the greatest learnings of women was to be able to reconcile home, motherhood, company and family, the present work contributes to the literature based on interviews with women in the management of traditionally male organizations.