Políticas públicas para as mulheres: avanços, limites e desafios

Abstract

This article presents the results of the research finished in 2016, through the Scientific Initiation Program/PIC-CNPq/UFRPE, as a requirement for equivalence to the Estágio Supervisionado Obrigatório of the Bachelor's Degree in Home Economics. This research had the goal to identify the social direction of public policies aimed at women in the municipalities of Recife, Olinda and Jaboatão dos Guararapes, in order to promote female autonomy. The methodology used was exploratory and was based on bibliographical research and on-site observation of the routine of the places where women were cared for, where data on gender relations and female autonomy in those municipalities were collected. The results obtained show that the actions aimed at women were concentrated in services specialized in assisting women in situations of domestic and/or sexist violence and programs that enable women's economic autonomy, whether offering professional training or entrepreneurship courses. In view of the results presented, it was possible to affirm that the policies aimed at women were characterized as welfare policies and, in the context of the precarious era, they needed to advance towards structuring actions, understanding and intervening in the problem of women in the broader context of the whole of the logic of capital.