Work-life balance: Um estudo sobre a percepção de graduandas em Ciências Contábeis em relação à maternidade e profissão contábil

Abstract

Given all the changes achieved by women, changes that guarantee greater freedom for their bodies and financial independence, in this scenario motherhood has ceased to play a main role in their lives and has given way to professional success. However, it is still silently imposed on contemporary women to give up their professional advancement to give way to home care, marriage and raising a family, demonstrating that even with advances, women still do not have complete freedom and autonomy over their lives. own choices. (VIELLA, 2015) The main goal of this academic work was to respond to the following problem: What is the perception of Accounting students who are mothers about motherhood and the challenges that the triple/fourth shift imposes: being a mother, being a student, being a worker , be a housewife? To try to obtain sufficient facts to answer this problem, interviews were carried out with seven women who fit the analyzed profile, in addition to bibliographical research on renowned actors. Through the reports it was possible to obtain numerical data that allowed the construction of a research with true data. After data collection, it was possible to conclude that some factors are extremely important to reconcile the triple shift in the accounting area, as a positive point the flexibility of the work format that the area offers stands out, but even with advances in standards women are still primarily responsible for caring for their children and continue to give up their careers and delay graduation due to motherhood fitting into the Work-Life balance, as they hesitate to combine several shifts in parallel with motherhood.