“…Historically, women have been associated with domestic functions which are largely a legacy of structural institutional mechanisms (p. ex., family, church, school, the state) which have perpetuated masculine dominance (Bourdieu, 2011;Miltersteiner, Oliveira, Hryniewicz, Sant'anna, & Moura, 2020). However, with the passage of time, women have conquered more space in the job market, and the results of this study demonstrate the predominant entrance of women in the municipal management of SUS.…”