Organizational Benefits - imposition and glamor |
“I will be much more uncomfortable, I will have a lot more responsibility, I will have to deal with a president who is very complicated, a guy who doesn’t share my values, a super centralizing guy. Then I said ‘oh, I don’t want to get beaten for that money” (E9). |
“I participate in events with the directors and owners of the construction companies. Anyway, the status is very good” (E5). |
Control - competitiveness and standard behavior |
“It’s a very aggressive, competitive area, but it’s not a healthy one, it’s a destructive one” (E12). |
“It is based on stereotypes, on what you’re wearing, the way you put on makeup, how you do your hair, the way you talk, gesture. I think it really matters, at least here I know it has” (E2). |
Loneliness - competitiveness and not showing weaknesses |
“The happier you are, the more pressure you have to put on” (E14). |
“Loneliness is not physical, I feel that loneliness is having a position that does not allow you to talk about everything with everyone” (E1). |
Defense strategy (disposable, irreplaceable) |
“I have a full schedule in shared outlook” (E1). |
Reproduction of behavior that favors masculinity in organizations |
“People think I am angry that I am very demanding and I must be, I must be” (E6). “If we are almost all more like tommy boy than pretty, like this, we tend more to this side because everyone came from working in the the store floor” (E3). |
Affirm themselves as unique |
“When they promoted me, he called me and told me that I was the only woman in the entire company as CEO” (E3). “I was the only woman on the team” (E6). |
Reconciling work and leisure |
“Last year I had to, I won’t say to cancel, but give up on a trip, having to divert my script to solve a problem, but I think everything within what I think is acceptable for my position” (E2). |
Support team |
“Reconciling is easy, I have no problem, I have no difficulty in reconciling, no. (...)I have a maid, of course, you can’t do everything” (E1). |
Denial of trajectory difficulties |
“I think that in my career, it is obvious that there is a lot of my effort to know how to take advantage of opportunities, to be in the right place, at the right time” (E6). |
Discrimination and harassment |
“I didn’t have any discrimination because I see myself as a woman with a very high testosterone load. I don’t see myself as a weak woman. Perhaps this is one of the differentials. Even if you look at the management level there in the company itself - because we are all strong women - you will not find any Barbie like women, in the sense of dress sense, that person who has the beauty that maybe I could have some kind of discrimination, the cute little dummy, things in that sense” (E3). |