title: ["This conversation is professional, [...] I am a painter!": resistence at a construction site].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to be familiar with the work relationships between females and their male colleagues at a construction site in the municipality of Santa Maria, RS.
  
  
  METHODS
  Exploratory research, qualitative approach with a female worker of a construction site in August 2012. Oral history as a device for data production. Analysis of French tradition speech as an analytical device.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Work relationship with stances of resistance, with major fights against power of male order, pointing to shifts and continuities in the test for new gender behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The conquest of spaces in paid work is not enough to achieve balance in gender relations; public policies on gender sensitizing contribute to changes in the cultural field by understanding that equal rights and opportunities between men and women are a basic condition for achieving justice, citizenship and development.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Celeste
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Landerdahl
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Laura Ferreira
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Cortes
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Stela Maris de Mello
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Padoin
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Wilza Vieira
authors.initials: WV
authors.lastname: Villela
mesh_terms: D060389:Construction Industry; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D017132:Workplace