Atividade econômica das esposas de civil e militar da União considerando suas características migratórias, Brasil, 2010

Abstract

The gender inequalities in the Brazilian labor market are still linked to the traditional figure of women, and are intensified when you are a wife and have children or dependents who need more care. This profile is more intense when women are military wives, since the patriarchalism attributed to the military career is inserted in the daily lives of these families, with the woman as a figure associated with the home, and the subordination of the husband. Besides that, the profession of the military husband of the Armed Forces is linked to the protection service of the Fatherland, and must strictly comply with the precepts of hierarchy and discipline, which includes possible compulsory migrations. Accordingly, the Union military may become migrants, and, consequently, his wife may occupy the position of tied mover, migrating to accompany the husband's profession, and may become an obstacle to their insertion and permanence in formal work.Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze the differentials in the characteristics of the participation in the labor market of wives of the Union's military, in relation to the wives of civilians, considering the migratory situation of these two groups. For this purpose, the Demographic Census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE),from 2010, as well as the logit model as a methodological tool, will be used as data source. The results confirm the hypothesis that the wives of military personnel in the Armed Forces have less participation in formal occupations and greater inactivity than wives of formal civilian workers, with this strong implication being associated mainly with migration, and may be aggravated by other factors, such as instruction level. Thus, with the verification of the hypothesis, it can be concluded that the wives of the Union's military, although well educated, are more dependent on the husband's income, in relation to the civilian wives, partly due to the migratory context in which they are inserted