Abstract
Early Childhood Education has as its central characteristic the binomial care-education (Pasqualini; Martins, 2008) and its workforce is mostly female (Brasil, 2023). Having said this, this paper discusses the historical components of work related to care (Leite, 2023) and, therefore, the historical and mostly female presence in work with young children (Paschoal; Machado, 2009). Based on…