Gender, career and institutions: Stereotypes, "glass ceiling" and other implications

Abstract

This essay aims to present a theoretical proposal on the relationship established between professional career and gender from the perspective of Thorstein Veblen in institutional theory. The separation of a male versus female universe was created and entrenched generation after generation, loaded with prejudices and discrimination against the female gender, legitimizing inequality. The study of instincts, habits, ways of thinking, their repetition and legitimation until originating the institutions provides a new perspective to understand the inequalities between men and women since childhood, and which, later, determine the development and progression of their professional careers. The theoretical-empirical relationship carried out is based on gender and work data in Brazil, reflecting in particular, the reality of careers in this country.