Feminization of Advocacy and Ascension of Women in Law Brazilian Offices

The article provides on the internationalization and feminization of advocacy, which in Brazil took place simultaneously to the stratification of the profession. The massive entry of women in advocacy failed to reverse the male logic with which it was built, in the early twentieth century, with women concentrated in the early stages of career. The research presented investigated the main obstacles and the strategies used by women to ascend professionally in ten of the twenty largest law offices in the city of São Paulo.