Especificidades do trabalho da mulher: algumas questões de gênero

Abstract

Over the years the woman has been facing great challenges regarding her insertion and permanence in the job market. Therefore, when recourse to history it is possible to perceive that because of diverse social, cultural and biological factors, women were treated differently than men, sometimes leading to discriminatory actions. This work shows the main historical aspects and legal principles that currently support Labor Law and allowed this branch of law to become such an important instrument in the protection of workers' rights. Through bibliographical and jurisprudential research, it is sought to understand the concepts of equality and isonomy that surround the differences of genders, showing to what extent the differences in treatment granted over the years are justifiable, as well as the permanence up to the present day of rights granted exclusively to women and their reception by the established legal order. An analysis of the protection afforded to women by the Consolidation of Labor Laws and an understanding of the relevance of differentiations made in light of the principle of equality provided for in the Constitution of the Republic demonstrating the need for some rights to be imparted unequally to enable society to achieve equality beyond the formal equality provided for in the Constitutional Charter