Women in management : the other face of a story

Abstract

Gender violence constitutes one of the social problems that vehemently hurts women at present without any distinction of economic position, social status, nationality, age group or race. In this respect, the challenges and dichotomies, viewed from a theoretical methodological perspective, in addition to socioeconomically transformations, cultural and judicial policies confronted by Social Sciences causes the complexity of the phenomenon to remain unnoticed, and in many cases, invisible from the labor, family, and community vantage point. This constitutes a demanding burden exerted on female managers who must perform multiple social roles, and who constantly change from violent actor into violence victim. In view of the previously expressed, this work intends to expose the main gender violence expressions suffered by the directing women of the Social Sciences Faculty of the Universidad de Oriented (university in the Western province), oriented to contribute in the institutional preventive measures meant for that sector. The intended investigation fits the descriptive type; it corresponds to the analysis’ exploratory phase of gender violence from the perspective of the directing women. This was done in conjunction with aspects of quantitative and qualitative methodology in order to offer the possibility of exposing the gender violence problematic platform be it symbolic, psychological or structured. The violence expressions against directing women is a reality that we rarely recognize, notwithstanding, these inevitably point to a dynamic of relationships that could carve some violence fissures within the working environment.