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A fines de conocer los comienzos de la profesión jurídica en la provincia de La Pampa y los modos en que las mujeres ejercieron la profesión,este artículo aborda aspectos sustantivos de la vida de cuatro abogadas que llegaron a La Pampa entre los años ‘60 y principios de los años ‘70 focalizando la indagación en sus estudios universitarios, su regreso o radicación en la provincia y las percepciones que tienen sobre la igualdad en el ejercicio de su trabajo profesional.La indagación se enmarca en un proyecto de carácter exploratorio y utiliza la técnica de la entrevista como herramienta de la investigación socialcualitativa. Preliminarmente podemos decir que se trata demujeres que estudiaron la carrera en los inicios delproceso de feminización de laabogacía,se insertaron rápidamente en la función judicial en el marco de una estructura social que permitía el ascenso social vía la educación superior universitaria y que,apesar de las discriminaciones ydesigualdades, ellas pudieron ocupar cargos relevantes en suscarreras laborales. Según su visión del trabajo y la familia, y de acuerdo a sus recursos sociofamiliares compatibilizaron de distintos modos sus carreras profesionalescon la casa y la familia, habiéndose encontrado en sus relatos distintasexplicaciones sobre laexperiencia de ser abogadas que pueden fundarse en distintas vertientes de los estudios feministas.
The greater presence of women in the legal field in Argentina is a phenomenon that has been going on for more than half a century. Valuable research accounts for the feminization of university careers and those of law in particular. However, studies maintain that the quantitative feminization of the legal profession has not caused major qualitative transformations within the legal field with regard to the presence of women in decision-making bodies, whether in law schools, professional associations, companies or the magistracy.In order to learn about the beginnings of the legal profession in the province of La Pampa and the ways in which women practiced the profession, this article addresses substantive aspects of the lives of four lawyers who arrived in La Pampa between the 1960s and early 1970s focusing the investigation on their university studies, their return or settlement in the province and the perceptions they have about equality in the exercise of their professional work.The inquiry is part of an exploratory project and uses the interview technique as a tool for qualitative social research. Preliminarily we can say that these are women who studied the career at the beginning of the process of feminization of the legal profession, quickly inserted themselves into the judicial function within the framework of a social structure that allowed social advancement via university higher education and that, despite discrimination and inequalities, they were able to occupy relevant positions in their professional careers. According to their vision of work and family, and according to their socio-family resources, they made compatible their professional careers with home and family in different ways, having found in their stories different explanations about the experience of being a lawyer that can be based on different aspects of feminist studies.
