Igualdade formal e discriminação efetiva de mulheres no ambiente de trabalho bancário

Abstract

In this teaching case, we seek to problematize the existence of discriminatory practices against minorities (particularly women) in organizations, hidden under an allegedly technical and results-generating argument. In the organization studied – which, allthoug being public and therefore bureaucratic in its essence, which would lead in theory to an equitable perspective in the management, suffers from the same problems verified in other organizational contexts –, women are constantly discriminated, being joked, diminished and discriminated for being who they are. The case deals with simultaneous situations of pregnancy of co-workers, which generated a series of developments that deserve to be problematized.