Between professionalism and symbolic principles of gender domination in legal carreis in Brazil

Abstract

This article discusses the relation between the construction of the concept of professionalism by the legal and professional fields in Brazil and the glass ceiling blocking the path of women in the legal careers. Until the last decades of the past century, the legal professions were next to restricted to the male universe. Such restriction resulted in the definition of a professional identity that hampers the insertion of other people due to the hope of maintaining a homogeneous and prevailing identity. In its turn, such identity, in the way it is presented, expresses the outreach of male domination, as a consequence of the sexist principles, which historically elapse in society, not only as a structuring factor for the collective professional identity, but also as an organizing premise of papers and principles of society and the State.