Soldadinhos-de-chumbo e bonecas: representações sociais do masculino e feminino em jornais de empresas

Alessandra Morgado Horta Corrêa, Maria Cecília Lemos Gontijo, Lílian Bambirra de Assis, Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri and Marlene Catarina de Oliveira Lopes Melo

RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Administration), 2007, vol. 11, issue 2, 191-211

Abstract: This article presents aspects of the genders social representations in the newsletters of two factories located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, one of which being predominantly male and the other female shopfloor. In order to proved with the investigation, the theoretical concepts of both social and media representations as well as reproduction of social and cultural roles of woman and man were revisited. It has been understood that the social representations are important to the organizational studies once they permit an analysis of the actors who influence both the dynamic and the results of the organization. These relations were observed in the newsletters' editorial line, lay out and in the language used on its publication which with some elements of discourse analysis allowed the finding of these subjects in the newsletters: female subjects, male subjects, power relations and competitiveness which related to the genders social representations. In the end, it was possible to verify that these analyzed company newsletters helped the upper management to disseminate its discourse.

Date: 2007
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