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Woman, work and time: the daily life of women flight attendants

This article discusses how women mothers who work as flight attendants perceive and organize their daily lives, discussing experiences and practices in relation to spatial and temporal organization of work in aviation. The relevance of this issue arises in the specific temporal and spatial organization of work, peculiarities regarding the management of everyday life and possible influences of gender issues in the working world. This study is a dialogue with the discussion of time and effort. Draws on the mapping method, six flight attendants women mothers were interviewed. The speeches revealed other ways of managing the home and motherhood, other types of relationships with children, friends and family and an understanding of work that makes us to question what we conceive as painful and suffering generator from these experiences that occur in existential territories sparsely populated.

gender; flight attendants; daily


Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (CFCH), Av. da Arquitetura S/N - 7º Andar - Cidade Universitária, Recife - PE - CEP: 50740-550 - Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil
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