“…Analyzing the researchers' profile, we noticed the predominance of male gender involving other areas, such as Chemistry9and Dentistry 18 . However, this fact has been changing in the last years, in areas such as Nursing 1 and Physiotherapy 20 , in which we observe the predominance of the female gender among the grant holders of PQ/CNPq, alongside with the history of feminization of jobs. It is important to mention the same tendency observed in two studies involving PQ in the field of Public Health: in the first study 155 resumes Lattes of researchers were analyzed in the three years of 2004-2006, we could observe the similarity between the male and female gender (1.03:1) 11 .…”