Análise do processo de inserção e atuação da mulher no mercado de trabalho da construção civil

Abstract

It was only after the seventies that women started to occupy any job role in Brazil. However, female workforce was only focused at some departments such as education and care related, which were already developed by women in the domestic environment. The introduction of women at engineering has been a slow and costful process. At civil engineering, specifically, they have been finding some gender-related barriers. On this scenario, this study elaborates a contribution to enhance the discussion around the current situation of the female civil engineers in the city of Fortaleza- CE. The main goal of this research is to identify and analyze the perception of these women in the civil engineering area, focusing on their insertion and performance as professionals. The methodology was divided into two steps: review of the literature and interviews with flexible scripts towards the relation between work and gender. On the second step, it was made the recapitulation of their professional careers and the description of the current labor of 36 female civil engineers throughout the many branches of civil engineering. They described important facts of their lives related to the choosing of the civil engineering career, initial career, motherhood and acting as civil engineers. Through the comparison between the problems stated in many academic papers and the results of the interviews, the conclusion is that there are still obstacles to be overcome so that gender inequity ends in civil engineering. However, there are some evidences that we are making some progress, as society, towards the acceptance of women in the civil engineering field, which is still traditionally male.