FAMILY AND WORK: “HAVING IT ALL”

Resumo

This paper compares the practices of a Norwegian global company in Brazil regarding parental leave, and the perceptions of employees on the relationship between their maternity/paternity and their careers in qualitative and quantitative analysis thorough the use of a questionnaire. It aims at understanding how employees in this company see that parental life could affect work life, thus affecting gender equality at work. It casts light on employees perceptions on “having it all”, family and career, for both women and men, in a Scandinavian company in Brazil. The theoretical framework used for the analysis is Joan Acker’s structuralist approach, based on the concepts of Gendered Organizations and Inequality Regimes.