GENDER AND PROFESSION: CONSIDERATIONS ON FEMALE ROLES IN BUILDING THE NUTRITIONIST CAREER

Abstract

The collective trajectory traced by Nutrition is manifested in the fact that it is naturalized as a female profession and arises the discussion on the distinction between genders as conceived contemporaneously. From a gender conception as a historical and cultural construction, we propose a reflection of professional qualification focused on gender as an analytic category. We indicated the relationship between the professional and the household works confusing the private space with the public, which may have contributed to the initial difficulty in outlining the professional nutritionist identity. Likewise, we pointed to links between nutrition and gender, also as result of a habitus that naturalizes the profession of nutritionist as feminine. DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2016.23426

Keywords

• nutrição
• gênero
• profissão