Equitable access must be the premise of any designed space, enabling as many people as possible to use it in the best way possible. In this sense, ensuring access to spaces, not only physical, but also hierarchical, is fundamental to building more inclusive environments. Running counter to this principle, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, published by the World Economic Forum, achieving gender parity at the global scale may take more than a century. Against this backdrop, the study examines how structural and cultural factors shape women's leadership trajectories in the construction sector in Brazil and Canada. Through a mixed-methods approach — combining survey and semi-structured interviews — integrated with a Strategic Foresight perspective, the research proposes the Systemic Leadership Equity Framework as an analytical lens for understanding and transforming the conditions that sustain or limit more equitable leadership trajectories in the sector.