Comprensión de significados del embarazo en una comercializadora de calzado en la ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

This research has been planned with the aim to get a better understanding of the meaning of narratives regarding the pregnancy in people a work related environment, it is developed in a footwear manufacturing company located in the city of Bogota. The phenomenon was approached from the episteme of social constructionism, using the biographical methods history of life technique and interviews assessed by expert judges regarding the content and the information collected. The outcome reveals three main categories: 1) Meanings of pregnancy in pregnant mothers, 2) Meaning of pregnancy in the company members, and 3) Corporate support, showing the pregnancy as life project, bringing changes in the identity processes, considering the workplace as a community where interaction happens, co-build and deconstruct of meanings are done often. Also there is a change in the roles and hierarchy of women inside the organization due to the physiological changes experienced by women, people surrounding change the way to relate and interact with her and hers duties also change. The company assumes a social responsibility in mandatory form and its showed reachable to accomplish the law requirements, where the way to perceive the woman in pregnancy go from the woman who needs support in the working duties, but emotionally also due to the multiple changes that has to face. Finally it is recognize a positive and empathetic attitude in the co-workers thanks to the meanings about woman in pregnancy.