Conte-nos sua história! Triple Jeopardy nas narrativas de mulheres negras na cidade de Uberlândia

Abstract

Statistics official\'s institutions point that the amount of the Brazilians identified as black is the segment that joins the market earlier, invests more in education and receives less in return from the qualification. However, the barriers to promotion of equality haven\'t been explored in the Brazilian organizational studies, though studies about inequality have discussed the subject, especially in Social Sciences. Studies about gender and inequality should approach the intersection between ethnicity, gender and class, so, this research explored the application of the concept of inequality regimes as a metaphor for the barriers in the career of black women. The inequality regimes refer to processes and meanings that exist in every organization that affect the perceptions about people, based on gender, class and ethnicity and it\'s a result of the inequality of the society. With the aim to identify components of the inequality regimes in black women\'s narratives, it was analyzed the professional trajectory of two black women who live in Uberlândia - MG. By analyzing the content of their narratives, it was noticed that their perceptions and constructed expectations based on gender and ethnicity are present both in personal and work relationships. Both of them are from needy families, have worked on service sector jobs, and spoke about situations of prejudice and discrimination. The analysis of their stories point to examples of the processes that reproduce inequalities: the accentuated hierarchy and the segregation in some work spots, the difficulties of relationship in the daily interaction between work colleagues, and superiors and subordinates. It can be pointed that the manifestations of machismo and racism still pervade social relations, influence relationships and constitute barriers, not always subtle, to promotion of equality.