Gender mainstreaming in the public policy agenda of slave labor eradication in Brazil
Gender. Slave labor. Public policies. Agenda. CONATRAE.
The research proposes to investigate the gender mainstreaming in the public policy agenda of slave labor eradication in Brazil. It starts with a bibliographical survey, with an analysis of the literature that discusses the concept of gender mainstreaming, verifying the use of the term from three different and complementary perspectives: epistemological, analytical of the public policy and normative, as the enforcement of the human and fundamental right to equality and non-discrimination. Once the axes for understanding the concept have been settled, we turn to the description of the context in which the public policy of eradication of slave labor in Brazil is developed: the entry of theme into the political agenda, the instruments currently in place for its execution, its cycle and its main actors. At this moment, a reflection is made on the profile of the victims currently rescued in Brazil, men and women, as well as other points considered sensitive by the specialized literature on the subject. The work concludes with the empirical analysis of the minutes of the meetings of the National Commission for the Eradication of Slave Labor (CONATRAE), between November 18, 2016 and February 23, 2022, finding that there are only scattered and occasional mentions of the impact of gender of the victim in the susceptibility to contemporary slave labor, and the concern with the intersectionality between gender and race appears even less prominently. The theme is frequently crossed by political-administrative changes, which results in a greater scarcity of references to gender and/or race. It's worthy of note that these scarce mentions are usually made by external members or guests, reinforcing the importance of opening up the fora where the public policy agenda is formed for the organized civil society and the institutional partners involved with the subject .