O direito fundamental à igualdade de gênero na constituição brasileira de 1988

Abstract

The present work studies the fundamental right to the gender equality and its application in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, since the development of the fundamental rights, with the sprouting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, in 1789, up to its consecration by the United Nations with the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, in 1948, the real beginning in the recognition of the human being's inalienable rights. It defends the idea that the feminine gender is holder of the right to the citizenship and that the role of the State and of the whole society is to promote the gender equality.