Mulheres em cargos de poder e liderança: um olhar situado e interseccional

Abstract

This article has as propose to reflect about the situation of women in leadership positions from a intersectional feminist perspective. The socially structured inequalities according to gender, race and social class has been affecting the women intersion in the labor market, putting the domestic work and care activites maden by them in the invisibility and complicate for them to rise and remain in positions of power and leadership. It’s a qualitative research, focused on the analysis of two semi-structured interviews made with two women managers of a public health service at one capital of the northeast of Brazil. It puts a spotlight, based in their experiences, in the main challengs and potentialities about this issue. The results indicate to the need to create and implemente equality policies from a intersectional perspective, either in public and private system, as well as changing and overcoming the established stereotypes according to gender, race and social class.