2014-03-262014-03-262013-05-24LEITE, Máurea Mendes. Origens sociais e trajetórias profissionais das primeiras mulheres policiais pertencentes ao círculo de oficiais da Polícia Militar do Pará. 2013. 80 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Belém, 2013. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Defesa Social e Mediação de Conflitos.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/4838This dissertation is a study of the social origins and career paths of female officers and a pioneer. We interviewed nine women officers in search of qualitative information, their life stories and their perceptions about the pioneering women of the institution, to investigate the objective and subjective conditions of his career in the police force. We opted for a qualitative approach to identify socio-cultural patterns and knowledge acquired by experience, beyond survival strategies, affirmation and self-protection in the police career. The difficulties were many, because we can not sensitize individuals to the importance of rescuing the history of women, who were not involved with the topic. Another difficulty, the sudden death of the leader of the group, which led to a cooling of the spirit of the subject, causing serious difficulties in convincing the others about their participation. Upon hearing their stories we see the legacy of the institution by identifying agents that even after a reservation time preserve the habitus acquired when wearing the uniform, a legacy of a symbolic system institutional, causing speak on behalf of the institution. It was noticed that the police have experienced violence, either when they are stigmatized as a minority, when your work is relegated to administrative, not a recognition of their skills, either by prejudice and discrimination they suffer both in relation to dimensions of insertion and on the distribution positions, either by employing the functions less relevant, but mostly for not giving up account of these facts. Being female police officer is part of a stigmatized group and viewed negatively, whose differences are not accepted nor recognized, whose truth is disqualified by a dominant group. This subordination gives rise to a phenomenon called "glass ceiling", characterized by an "invisible barrier", institutionalized by the male universe, preventing the rise of professional women's segment in the hierarchy of the paraense organization.porAcesso AbertoHistória de vida (Pesquisa social)Mulheres policiaisTrabalho da mulherPará - EstadoAmazônia brasileiraDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL::SERVICO SOCIAL APLICADO::SERVICO SOCIAL DO TRABALHO