Desigualdade racial: um problema enraizado no mercado de trabalho no Brasil

Abstract

Racial inequality proves to be a hidden problem in many institutions, whether public or private. Recent studies conducted by IBGE (2017a) showed that there was an increase in the contingent of black population in the country. However, this increase did not impact the increase of their opportunities in the labor market, especially when compared with the white population, thus representing an obstacle to the personal and professional growth of such individuals. Aware of this reality, the present work aimed to: analyze the influence of racial inequality in the Brazilian labor market. The methodology used in the study is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, with deductive method and quanti-quali approach. A bibliographic research was used aiming to explain about initial contextualization of the theme, as well as to expose official data regarding the discrepancies between blacks and whites in the labor market. The field research used as a technique for data collection the questionnaire, applied to people living in Fortaleza-CE, seeking a non-probabilistic sample, obtaining 103 valid answers, being 57 black and 46 white. After the analysis, the following results were obtained: although the number of blacks in universities is growing, this group still has higher illiteracy rates compared to whites. In addition, inequalities are also present in indices of family and individual income, unemployment rates and types of professions, among other factors, as found in the collected data. In addition, there is still a high proportion of the black population facing discrimination in corporate selection processes, as well as various types of racism in the profession, ranging from professional disqualification to verbal offense.