The thesis proposal is to critically understand how the issue of gender and the subject woman are constructed discursively in the international urban agenda since the Habitat II Conference (1996). It investigates the emergence of statements about women, their role in the city and orientations to promote their inclusion in the urban policies of international organizations. Based on a documentary analysis of selected materials from the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) and the World Bank, it was observed the regularity, repetition and circulation of determined statements, in various forms, that produces a mutual reinforcement of a certain framework of urban management and gender equality that supports the hegemonic development model. The purpose of this thesis is to pursue the effects of this discourse in the elaboration of notions on the right to the city from a gender perspective.