A proteção legal da gestante em atividades insalubres: um estudo de representação social com estudantes de enfermagem e de direito

Abstract

This research aimed to identify and analyze the social representations of academics from law and nursing courses on the work of the pregnant woman who develops work activity in an unhealthy environment. Initially, the work established a differentiation of the word work in relation to the labor law itself, starting with the historical contextualization of labor relations at a global level, as well as at a national level, in order to understand how the laws related to such labor relations emerged. . He sequentially emphasized the current national legislation, highlighting the constitutional and celetist texts in reference to the work of women, prioritizing considerations about the celetist device that specifically deals with the legal protection of pregnant women who work in an unhealthy environment, informing its origin and modifications, ending this stage with a parallel theoretical set between women's rights and gender. Then the methodological procedures adopted were informed, highlighting the use of the theory of social representations inaugurated by Moscovici, through the current of the central nucleus, developed by Abric. Data were collected through the application of three freely evoked questionnaires based on inductive terms and a semi-structured questionnaire, having been organized into groups of words according to the sense and semantic proximity resulting from the justifications presented by the interviewees in the questionnaires and according to the frequency and average evocation orders, replicated in tables divided into central and peripheral nuclei. The results indicated a great similarity in the social representations identified in both groups of researched academics, either in relation to the inductive terms used in the instruments of free evocation, or in the data obtained through the questionnaire. Still, it was extracted that both groups researched have compatible knowledge about the existence of the current legislation, especially related to the protection of women and, finally, in relation to the protective legal text of pregnant women who work in an unhealthy environment. Finally, the results obtained suggest that for both groups researched the referred legal text must exist, however it may be able to inhibit or evencause unemployment among women.