Carreiras de mulheres negras em profissões produzidas como imperiais: uma análise interseccional

Abstract

This dissertation brings the proposal to use intersectionality as an analytical tool to apprehend the articulation of multiple markers of differences and inequality working with the concept of intersectionality, which involves the articulation of multiple dimensions that, interrelated, act in the construction of inequalities, underlined by: gender, race, class. The concept of intersectionality, a theoretical, methodological and activist tool, proposes to jointly articulate the markers of social identity differences that produce social injustices. Debates and relevant aspects of the relationship between intersectionality and career were highlighted. This dissertation brought the professions produced as imperial: medicine, law and engineering. When faced with the Brazilian socio-historical construction, it was observed that there is a greater number of black women in subordinate careers, such as domestic workers. These constructions are opposed to the social spaces of protagonists and positions in imperial professions. In view of this scenario, and of the socioeconomic data that were presented, the need to make an analysis from the point of view of gender, race and class emerged, and this research sought reflections on the factors that generate consequences in the social ascension of black women, and the role society and the identity markers in this process. I understand the importance of intersectionally perceiving groups constructed as marginalized, and that do not end with black women. Despite that, this dissertation was designed in the context of careers built as imperial and the participation of black women in contemporary times. Therefore, this dissertation sought to answer how structural markers of identity differences of black women affect the process of building careers in imperial professions.