deGENEROu: a Secretaria Nacional de Políticas para as Mulheres

Abstract

This PhD research aims to understand the creation of the Presidency of the Republic’s National Secretariat of Women’s Policies, in 2003, during Lula’s government, based in the relation between feminist interest groups and the political choices made by the government at the time. The research also seeks to comprehend the success of the developed policies, highlighting the relevance of the National Conferences as spaces of dialogue between State and society. The impeachment process, in 2016, interrupted Dilma Rouseff’s government, and Michel Temer, former vice president, became the new president. Thus, this doctoral thesis aims to assess the shattering of the Secretariat, following its progress from 2016 to its ending, in 2018, and to associate it with the political and governmental instabilities after the impeachment. It is also necessary to understand the trajectory of the concept of gender from the beginning to the end of SPM, how the agenda was set for women policies, point the involved actors and the influences of the political and governmental context.