Brief study of women and gender in Brazil

In the present article we aim to present a brief historical and conceptual resumption on the studies of women and the emergence of the concept of gender in Brazil. We stress that this work is part of the research work Memories of women inserted in the labor market in Brazilian society: women in positions of judicial responsibility, of PhD in the Memory Program: Language and Society. To achieve our goal we opted for a bibliographical research, based on the main interlocutors Radl-Philipp (2010), Izquiedo (1998), Butler (2013) to conceptualize sex and gender; and Costa e Sardenberg (2008), Rago (1997), Figueiredo (2008) and Aud (2006) for the study of women and gender in Brazil. We considered in our studies that, despite advances, energetic attitudes are required in order to highlight the spaces in which women may subjective and have their rights respected and ensured within society in which they are inserted to establish meaningfully the reduction of social exclusion of women.