Mulher e mercado de trabalho no início do século XXI: um estudo de caso junto ao SESC no Oeste do Paraná (2006 a 2010)

Abstract

Women's participation in the labor market has expanded heavily in the latest decades, especially since the year 1970, this participation has generated several transformations in family structure and its traditional role of both in the family and society. Based on this new scenario, this study has to analyze the social and economic characteristics of the insertion of women affiliated with the units of the SESC in meso West Paranaense in tertiary sector in the period 2006 to 2010. The West was structured Paranaense initially by primary sector, but with the impact of technological changes and the displacement of rural population to urban area, the tertiary sector has been modernized to support the needs of new forms production organization, so the woman was included in this sector. By development of primary research with a sample of 638 women from the SESC, four units located in the municipalities of Cascavel, Foz do Iguacu, Toledo and Marechal Candido Rondon, we observed that most women in this age group between 30 to 39 years, with respect to marital prevalence refers to married women and the vast majority of them have only 01 and son the size of the family unit is concentrated among 02 to 04 people. Search revealed that the main reason for women entering the labor market is related to family financial need. We can also say that the predominance of women have secondary education, and that such a high rate attending higher education, and accumulates the execution of the double shift work, or home and abroad. It was noted the large number of women heads of households, responsible for the economic family unit. Already extensive secondary research revealed differences in earnings between men and women in this sector, which develop the same functions. It was also noted that in the volume was higher among male employees in this sector.