Gênero e mercado de trabalho: A ascensão da mulheres contadoras

Abstract

The great changes, as well as the break with a series of paradigms in the last years, mainly consequences of the modernization and development of society resulting from the social advances, which resulted from the globalization which began in the 18th century, having various impacts on the professional field. One of them was the production, work and emergence of space for women up to then non-existent. The women took on arduous work periods besides their domestic responsibilities and taking care of the children. The woman accountant, as an integral part of a globalized context, considerably increases day by day her representativeness in the work market, thus acquiring a role of great importance. The goal of this paper is to discover the difficulties confronted by these women, especially the accountant woman, to maintain the business aspect, verifying their entire trajectory. A bibliographic study was carried out to show the existing difficulties encountered to enter the work market in the accounting sector, which is a competitive and demanding market.