Divisão sexual do trabalho no Corpo de Bombeiros (2002-2006)

Abstract

This essay analyzes some relations between the performance of the activities and/or reports, by gender, and the functions required by the work posts of the Fire Department of Montes Claros/MG. We take hold of the description of functions by work posts, of the identification of fire workers by gender, their respective posts, different reports that happened between 2003-2006 e by whom they were performed. To analyze these aspects were considered 49 fire workers – 42 firemen and 07 firewomen – who entered this corporation during the screening process of 2002. Moreover, semi-direct interviews were taken with 05 women and 07 men who held the jobs of line helpers, head lining and operational company commander. Among some aspects, it was identified that even within a selective process of universal and public entry, and even having an equal performance or superior to the male gender during the initial training, in the moment of allocation and distribution of jobs, the corporation tends to direct the women to activities that have been considered, historically or socially as inherent to their gender.