The paradigms of development and gender inequality: analysis of public policies for women in Brazil

Abstract

This study analyzes the conceptual perspectives that subsidized the public policies aimed at women in Brazil and the forms of resistance to the global and local myth of well-being, to reduce the inequalities that would be ensured in industrialized societies. Specifically, it presents the tensions that cross the development dynamics at the national level and that have varied over time, influenced by international coalitions and dynamics. The methodology used is exploratory and bibliographical. The selection and analysis of the concepts of public policies, gender and development provided an understanding of the challenges of public policies aimed at women around the perspectives of development paradigms. The results point to the need for a new epistemological paradigm of development that seeks to break with the naturalized references, and to consider, in turn, the importance of including gender issues in the agenda of these new models.