Gestão dos tempos e do percurso profissional: estratégias das mulheres em profissões definidas no masculino

Abstract

Time presents itself as a central issue in the (in)equality between men and women at work, being particularly noticeable in the way they distribute their time daily. In typically male professions, where the temporal organization follows the assumption of total availability to work, the schedules are more likely to hamper reconciliation with the personal life, especially for women, as they are primarily responsible for the tasks in the domestic sphere.The completion of two case studies with police officers and bus drivers, professions undergoing a process of feminization, highlighted the central role of the factor time in these activities. In both cases, the reconciliation work / family in an atypical schedules context depends on the mobilization of different strategies for men and women. In the case of women, a different management of daily work time also corresponds to a different way of managing their career.The results enable a reflection on the contribution of women to these activities, the questions and the discussions that they trigger regarding, especially, the temporal organization of work but also the value conferred to time in the current labor market.

Keywords

• Time
• Feminization
• Working schedules
• Career path.