Assédio moral e sexual contra as mulheres no ambiente de trabalho: um estudo comparativo sobre as legislações no Brasil e em Portugal

Abstract

The present study proposes to analyze the public policies of confronting violence against women, in the temporal cut of the XXI century. The theoretical-methodological contribution that will lead to this research is supported in the socio-cultural perspective of the work in the public policies, starting from an investigation on the harassment - sexual and moral - suffered in the work environment. The study is part of the qualitative approach. The technical procedure adopted is a comparative study between the Brazilian and Portuguese legislations, together with a bibliographic and systematizing research of the subject - of a descriptive-analytical character -, which will be carried out through content analysis. The investigation of these laws, offered elements that characterize situations of sexual and moral harassment in the workspace and of claiming the criminalization of these harassments, promoting a culture of prevention and intervention to these crimes. Consequently, it is postulated that these policies related to daily work practices resulted in: 1) in the field of equality of women, proposals for the citizen legislation of these two countries; and, therefore, transforming themselves and 2) into instruments for the criminalization of these harassments.