"Black women managers: a required presence is a necessary book! 14 women, 14 biographies full of complexities. This book brings together powerful stories that give us the opportunity to better appropriate our history: mineira, Brazilian. And as Deputy Andreia de Jesus suggests, it can be read in two ways: from its similarities or from its specificities. And they are two complementary forms, as the interviewees intertwine experiences, feelings, and memories to the familial, social, cultural, political, and historical context in which they lived and live."