Quando menina veste azul e menino veste rosa: questões de gênero no trabalho

Abstract

Our objective is to analyze the gender issue from the persistent and chronic sexual division of labor in the labor market. To do so, we propose a reflection on the experience of a male hairdresser and a female stevedore in Quebec (Canada). Thereby, we seek to bring visibility on the sexual division of labor which embodies a certain dynamics and hierarchy between genders. Despite all the theorizing on gender, the issue is often still thought in terms of sex in a binary way, as a simple consequence of biological sex.