Pobreza e gênero: programa bolsa família e privações de liberdade das mulheres no Brasil

Abstract

The recent growth in poverty and extreme poverty, with the country's return to the hunger map, as well as the other effects of the political and health crisis (COVID-19), open up the accumulation of vulnerability experienced by poor women in Brazil. It is against this background that this dissertation intends to analyze the role and performance of the Brazilian State in the search for overcoming these inequalities, with emphasis on the reduction of social inequalities through the realization of Fundamental Rights. In this desideratum, the evolution of the concept of poverty will be analyzed, highlighting the current recognition of its multidimensional character through the study of the fundamental categories of Amartya Sen's thought, notably those related to the capability approach, seeking to identify contributions from the perspective of development as freedom for the design of public policies. In the second chapter, we seek to investigate the implications involving Gender and Poverty, based on a bibliographic survey, through qualitative investigations that cover the following themes: "Gender and Poverty", "Feminization of poverty", "Intersectionality", "Gender and Pandemic”, with the aim of establishing premises that contribute to understanding how a conditional cash transfer program contributes to the elimination of women's deprivation of liberty in Brazil. Thus, in the third chapter, through a qualitative investigation, combined with a secondary analysis of data and official documents, the evolution of income distribution policies implemented in Brazil after the 1988 Constitution will be investigated, with emphasis in the creation and development of the Bolsa Família Program, with the objective of evaluating its ability to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty, presenting alternatives for the elimination of deprivation of liberty of women in Brazil.