Violêcia de gênero no ambiente de trabalho: assédio sexual e a ideologia do poder patriarcal

Abstract

Gender-based violence in the workplace is a worldwide reality. This factor allows access to several cases of sexual harassment that are carried out, mostly by women. The nature of this problem lies in the historical construction in which patriarchy is the main cause of such oppression. This article has the basic strategic objective of deepening the scientific knowledge of the theme, with a descriptive objective. It has a qualitative approach, with critical and evaluative analysis regarding the collected data. With the hypothesis-deductive research method, looking for hypotheses to solve the problem. The procedure of which is defined in bibliographic based on doctrines and documental in a legislative support and considered pertinent to the matter. Thus, as a result, it exposes that gender violence in the workplace, specifically sexual harassment, although recognized by Brazilian law as a crime and concomitantly entitled to indirect termination and civil liability regarding damages, it is found that despite the with the increasing emergence of legislation, such punishments still remain ineffective in preventing and controlling this violence.