Do caldeirão ao copo: A presença feminina no mercado de cervejas artesanais no Brasil contemporâneo

Abstract

The present study investigates women's participation in history and the present-day beermaking market, reflecting on the permanences and ruptures of that presence through time. The research starts from the following interrogation: why, although historically attached to the beer production, women were progressively excluded from this field and, to the present day, still face several obstacles to remaining in it? This paper seeks to comprehend in which ways male chauvinism, misogyny and institutional sexism impact feminine insertion and permanence in this work environment, such as how professionals in this field build strategies to resist and transform this scenario, during the period 2000-2025. The adopted methodology includes an interdisciplinary bibliographic review emphasizing gender and labor studies, using semistructured interviews with women who actively operate in the Brazilian beer field as the main oral source. Data analysis points out both the difficulties faced by them - going from technical delegitimization to precarious working conditions - and their means to collectively resist and articulate.