Female protagonism in Social Control Organization (OCS) in the settlement Milton Santos in Americana/SP The gender relations, built and rooted in society, keep women's work and expression in invisibility, subordinate to domestic work restricted to the private sphere. This study focuses on a Organização de Controle Social (OCS) made up mainly of women who work in the production and marketing of organic food in the short circuit, through a democratically managed cooperative in the Milton Santos settlement. This settlement was built as Projeto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (PDS) according to INCRA, and also an Comuna da Terra as conceived by the MST. This conception is based on the perspective of organic production and the proximity of the settlement with the large consuming urban centers. When conducting the qualitative research, with participant observation and semi-structured interview with the women of this OCS and with women who do not work in this group, it was possible to examine in detail the device of the OCS, as an instrument to support agroecological agriculture. In fact, the women considered in this study as leading role in the commercialization activities around the OCS in question, with a view to their financial autonomy and the construction of egalitarian speech space in the public sphere. Short-circuit marketing enables greater proximity between producers and consumers. From these actions around commercialization, the women considered carry their aspirations to the public sphere, beyond the private sphere.