―Políticas Públicas, gênero e autonomia econômica das mulheres: Uma análise de programas do governo brasileiro no período de 2000 a 2007

Abstract

This thesis presents a study on the public policies and the gender dimensions in Brazil. This is a quantitative research conducted from statistical records of federal spending on social programs and data of gender indicators, the National System of Gender and Portrait of the Inequalities, which are instruments used to systematize various informations regarding the situation of the Brazilian women. This work it analyzes, more specifically, some variables of gender development index as the Economically Active Population, average income, tax of unemployment, family head, education and the access to durable consumer goods to diagnose the situation of women between years of 2003 and 2007. Afterward, the public programs Incentivo à Autonomia Econômica das Mulheres no Mundo do Trabalho and the Bolsa Família, was examined as a way of measuring the economic autonomy provided by the programs to the beneficiated women, evaluating under the focus of resources management and professional qualification. It is concluded that the analyzed programs have contributed in some moments to improve the living conditions of women through the perspective of autonomy generated, although is still far from gender equity. In other moments the inequalities and stereotypes between genders prevailing in society was intensified, such as the Bolsa Família, which in its regulations give priority to women as beneficiaries, resulting in female responsibility for the reproduction and care.