This article discusses the feminine ways of subjectivity in the contemporary world in the context of work and family. It questions the concept of gender, taking it as relational, plural, in an attempt to escape the binary logic. Data were collected from a research in which six women of medium social economic level between 25 and 35 years old were interviewed, and their answers were submitted to the content analysis. Results show women who are part of a historical context that addresses them the speech of a free and autonomous subject, who value their work as professionals, but at the same time, who are required to assist their husbands’ and children’s needs in private life. The multiple identities they assume require different and contradictory positions as subjects, pervaded by feminine/masculine gender issues that do not respond to their performances in the world. However, simultaneously their narrations indicate that these women have begun to look for alternative ways that might help them overcome these dichotomic relations.
Working women; Gender; Family; Dual careers