A obesidade e o preconceito no ambiente de trabalho: a percepção da discriminação pelo peso

Abstract

The fat person is stigmatized in the face of standards imposed by society because the person who presents a body that is not considered normal, rigorously experiencing prejudice and discrimination, thus generating consequences for life in all aspects. Also experienced in the workplace, the fat person has been delineated as a person accommodated and without disposition causing a malaise in the place that he lives together. In this way, this study will be guided to discover the need to rethink the consequences of discrimination and fatphobia, based on the prejudice of weight for people outside the beauty standards imposed by society. It aiming to identify which situations of discrimination lived by fats mainly in the environment where they are inserted, supposedly impregnated from prejudices, discrimination and stigmas, representing, in contemporary society, a pejorative character of a body with lack of health. The employees of the City Hall of Forquilha in the State of Ceará, were chosen as the object of study of this dissertation project. Therefore, this study will seek to get answers to the question of research: to understand the experiences of prejudices experienced by fats in the field of municipal public functionalism. For the collect of data will be conducted questionnaires with semi-structured questions that will be applied in employees of both sexes with age between 25 and 45 years. The data collected will be subject to content analysis. It is expected with this study, from the theoretical point of view, contributing to the completion of a gap in the literature on the art of fatphobia, which can support new theories and develop new behaviors in the workplace. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]