Sexismo no Ambiente Acadêmico-Profissional: Influências no bem-estar e na auto-estima

Abstract

This research investigated the impact of discrimination against women in their working place and in their biopsychosocial well-being. In a sample of 229 female students of a private university in the interior region of Goiás, was evaluated the perception of the pervasiveness gender discrimination and its effects in the emmotional references, as psychological wellbeing, self-esteem and social identity. The sample was composed by female students of courses considered to be masculine or feminine that answered a questionaire composed by a scale of psychological well-being, one scale of self-esteem and one of social identity. Before answer them, half of the students read a story with a rare gender discrimination content. The other half read a story with a pervasive gender discrimination content. After reading, they should answer if they agreed or disagreed with its contents. It was verified that the manipulation of the contents being rare or pervasive had effect on women. The results also indicate that well-being and self-steem showed negatively influenced. However, we expected that in male social context a higher negative influence on emmotional references instead of female social context. This was not observed. The results are discussed based on theories about prejudice in social psychology.