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This article’s focuses on sexual inequalities of career in the management of four general directions of two ministries, economic and financial, social, contrasted from the point of view of their feminisation and the types of career. The inquiry is based on a hundred or so life stories of both men and women. Above their family education and the unequal access to senior civil service through the royal route of the ÉNA, the obstacles in the careers of women are detected at the heart of the administration, through the rules of availability, geographical mobility and the homophilic cooptation they imply. Policies of professional equality struggle to modify them but, nonetheless, succeed in creating a greater awareness of the problem.