The elaboration of the present article aimed at to promote a discussion of theoretical character concerning the power and gender relationships in organizations. For so much, it was tried to extrapolate the limitations of the approaches that defend power centrality and sovereignty, by the adoption of conceptions of relational power and power circuits. These approaches allow recognizing power effects in the relationships and interactions among individuals and in organizational practices and speeches that promote and reinforce gender asymmetries. The adopted perspective admits the existence of adhesion and resistance points to power, capable to legitimate or to deny its action, and also understands organizations as spaces in which men and women articulate their relationships through negotiation, reply and fight movements, in agreement with interests at stake. In this work, therefore, gender relationships are noticed as mechanisms and social practices that are instituted and institute actions and behaviors.
Gender relationships; power relationships; organizations; power circuits; self-regulation