Sexual Division of Labo in Pharmaceutical Industry
Sexual Division of Labor, social sex relationship, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmacist woman
The pharmaceutical profession is millenary, going through several historical moments in different social, economic and political scenarios. Currently, due to the numerous changes in its form of organization, it is marked by increasing feminization, with 10 different areas of action, linked to more than 130 specialties, with massive participation by women. This study aimed to analyze the sexual division of labor in the pharmaceutical industry, located in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, in order to highlight the social relationships of sex that permeate the world of work, notably, the field of Pharmacy. It is a qualitative and exploratory research, structured by Line 3 Formative Processes in Technological Education (PPGET/CEFET-MG), whose case study method was developed in a critical dialectical perspective. For this, bibliographical and documental reviews were undertaken, and field research, in which semi-structured interviews and a field diary were used, and the material produced was analyzed in the light of the theories of the sexual division of work and social sex relations, from the French sociology of work, with a materialist basis. The results point to the double shift exercised in salaried work and domestic work present in the lives of the researched pharmacists as the main evidence of the social relationships of sex that cross the field of Pharmacy, raising in these women, resistance and coping strategies common to the profession dedicated to care and to health.