Participação feminina em um conselho deliberativo de uma instituição de ensino superior

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to study the female participation in the management council of a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Attempts have been made to demonstrate whether this participation / representativeness is effective. However, what has been discovered is that this representativeness is often silenced. Such research has as a theoretical contribution the discussion about gender (male and female) and social roles (male and female) and how these roles are constructed historically and socially. Afterwards, a discussion of the unfolding of these roles in the salaried work environment and the inequality between men and women arising from this assumption is made. Finally, the question of the public scope (which is the focus of this work) is analyzed and how these developments occur there: many gender inequalities are not confirmed and, therefore, this discrimination happens in a more subtle way. In this sense, we work on issues such as hierarchical segregation and the control mechanisms that make it happen. More than that, the issue of female silencing and the forms of power existing between the sexes is also mentioned. In order to achieve the proposed objective, the research was based on the documentary method, based on the analysis of the minutes of the meetings of the managing council of the HEI. A total of 924 minutes were analyzed. The analysis was qualitative (synthetic) looking for presence, that is, when women begin to sign the minutes and be part of the Board as effective members and speeches (when there are women's statements recorded in the minutes, what are their contributions to the resolution of the problem) present there. Based on these analyzes, it was possible to notice that there was a progression in female participation over the analyzed years. For at least 50 years, there is not even mention of any woman's name; then they proceed to sign the minutes, but no record of these women was recorded in the minutes. In the 1980s, timid representations began to appear, but no meaningful speech was recorded. Finally, from the late 1990s, they have their statements recorded in minutes, and their speech contributes in some way to the discussions presented. With these results, it is believed that the research has reached its objective in that it allows the author to make this analysis and that, from it, can draw its own conclusions on the subject.