The semantic path of the moral harassment on women managers' professional trajectory

Abstract

This research has the objective of pointing out to moral harassment behavior during the professional trajectory of twelve women managersworking for companies in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, who declared themselves harassed. Answers were related to the categories of Hirigoyen (2002a, 2002b). In order to achieve the purpose of the research data were collected through life histories with participative investigation technique and analyzed by the discourse analysis methodology. This methodological strategy permitted to observe that power relations present in the working environment bring possibilities of an old reading of what is named today moral harassment, and most of the women managers still suffer moral harassment, probably more exposed, as they work in an masculine dominated environment that can be explained by brazilian cultural factors.