This article is inserted in the area of the organizational studies that treats with the gender relationships subjects in the work space, through which it was tried to understand how the thought categories about those relationships are "built" in people's subjectivity and how they act in men and women's career development in a bank organization. This research's relevance is based on the search of understanding how conflicts among gender are mediated within organizations and on indicating possible solutions for maximizing the organizational management process. The research's results allowed the understanding that sexual hierarchy is still imposed as a differentiation mechanism in the organizational ambit and that the coexistence of both genders in a common social context can be capable of transforming the social reality. Studies of this nature reinforce the organizational needs to search for new forms of working the social complexity without inhibiting the existent differences, because like this, each one, in their singularity, can contribute indeed to the organizational development.
Social representations; gender relationships; organizational space; post-structuralism; social reality