Are breweries for everyone? an investigation into the brewing labor market in paraíba in the light of gender

Abstract

The food industry is marked by gender! This stigma is evident even in the brewing market, given the social differences, such as the historical forced removal of women from production, the assignment of brewing to male responsibility and their domination in this field, the few female brewers. The aim is to verify gender issues in Paraiba breweries registered with MAPA, both as employers and employees, to identify the presence and occupation of social minorities, quantifying them and drawing up a current panoramic profile. This research is quantitative, basic in nature, exploratory in purpose, bibliographical and field-based, with a collection instrument using an electronic questionnaire. In the on-site survey, snowball sampling began with the breweries registered in the state. The data was systematized and analysed taking into account the cultural markers exposed. Thus, the social force is made up of: 80% heterosexual white cis men, and 20% heterosexual cis, brown and indigenous women. As for the gender of the workforce: 78% are cis men, 16% are cis women and 6% are unidentified.