A realidade do trabalho e carreira feminina: análise da diferença salarial não explicada entre homens e mulheres no mercado de trabalho formal de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This study involved a quantitative approach, based on the analysis of secondary data. The objective of this study involved identifying and describing differences in work and career, between men and women, considering the wage gap between the two genders, in the State of Minas Gerais, based on data published in the Annual List of Social Information (Relação Anual de Infromações Sociais - RAIS, in portuguese) , made available by the Ministry of Economy, through the Special Secretariat for Social Security and Labor, for the years 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. This study is justified for contributing academically, in seeking to understand the salary characteristics of men and women in the State of Minas Gerais, for encouraging the adoption of more equitable and fair people management practices, for seeking subsidies to improve the satisfaction and valuation of women in organizations and, because it is a current issue, with academic and economic relevance, contributing for the satisfaction of people and the productivity of organizations. The data collected, referring to the selected years, were organized using the software IBM SPSS Statistics and Microsoft Excel, and then quantitative comparisons were made, seeking to highlight the wage differences between men and women formally employed in the selected years and, from there, inferences were made to explain the possible causes of the observed wage differences. In conclusion, this study confirmed the existence of an “unexplained” wage gap between genders, in addition to other considerations.