The huge demand for software practitioners and the diversity crisis in the software development industry have emphasized the absence of women and other underrepresented minorities. Thus, the diversity crisis is not limited to women, it is about social identities that go beyond gender and race, but it is mainly, about power. Here, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding intersectionality. We posit that a framework can help to incorporate attention to social reproduction of inequities in software engineering by means of the application of the concept to the discipline