Estrategias de mujeres ferroviarias frente a las violencias de género. Una experiencia desde la psicología social comunitaria

Abstract

Occupational segregation, harassment and discrimination are ways in which gender violence is expressed in the workplace, following patterns of the patriarchal order. The railway is a traditionally male workplace. The emergence of women there makes visible modalities of social subalternization of this group. From the focus of community social psychology, gender studies and a Participatory Action Research process, we developed the objective of analyzing social participation and strategies against gender violence of railway women. We implemented workshops, discussion groups, life stories and naturalistic observations with an intentional sample of 65 participants. Among the results was identified the recognition of internal and external violence to the workplace and subjective and collective transformations mediated by the process of social participation.