This research aims to analyze the social representation of women in Brazilian advertising between the years of 1950 and 1964. The work begins with a review of the literature on the studies of consumption and advertising as a whole. Then, the work evaluates the importance of collective representations (Durkheim, 1912) for the functioning of social life. For that, we refer to Serge Moscovici (1961), Stuart Hall (2016) and Simone de Beauvoir (1949). The political, economic, socio-cultural and technological transformations that Brazil went through at the time the ads used in this research were conveyed are then contextualized. Finally, an analysis of the advertising discourse on women in O Cruzeiro is undertaken. Similarities and dissimilarities are sought in advertising discourse of the prescribed temporal arc, focusing, mainly, on the construction of the modern woman. Assuming that advertising can be a means of revisiting past perspectives – and also that social representation is an inescapable phenomenon of social life –, on being women in Brazilian society is therefore discussed.