Discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in the workplace

Abstract

This article intends to discuss and proposes to expand the reflections centered on sexual division of labor, focusing on its reproduction in reconfigured ways and on how this division produces unequal gender relations. The expansion is proposed by bringing sexual orientation to the scene as part of gender discussions at work, framing homophobia as part of the discussion on male domination and mobilizing the analytical category of homonegativity. Addictionaly, it recovers results from empirical research that showed discrimination in the workplace based on or associated with sexual orientation, declared or supposed. One of the results found on this review is that discrimination varies according to the degree of homonegativity in the workplace, affecting the manifestation or concealment of sexual orientation in that space. This specific feature marks a difference from the case of the sexual division at work, which would not be possible " to omit". From the set of categories and situations gathered and discussed, this article aims to contribute to the construction of parameters and criteria for identifying violence, discrimination and rights violations in work environment based on gender. More specifically, in a particular way of understanding gender that considers the dimension of sexuality, whose characterization is a fundamental step for subsequent confrontation of gender discrimination at work.