A política de assistência social e suas condicionalidades para mulheres

Abstract

The present work aims to report the context of families headed by women who are / were beneficiaries of income transfer programs, such as the Handbag Famíly Program. To this end, the study is an internship report that was formulated through a bibliographic review and reflection of the experiences arising from the internships in Social Work, carried out at the Social Assistance Reference Center - CRAS, located in the municipality of Caçapava do Sul - RS. Such knowledge occurred through home visits, through documents, such as field diaries, intervention project and institutional analysis. The feminization of poverty is structured in such a way that, alone, women - attacked by countless inequalities, due to social gender roles and the patriarchal system - have to provide for themselves and their children and through this process, making them even more affected by poverty than the male gender. It was concluded that the income reduction program follows, in the same way that it allows the reproduction of the minimum living conditions, softening the expressions of the social issue and contributing to the amounts of millions of people, sometimes it can increase the responsibilities of women already overloaded. In addition, it is necessary to expand some spheres of the public network to really enforce social rights, essentially access to work and recognition of inequalities that still exist in society.