Programa de Promoção da Igualdade de Oportunidade para Todos: experiências de ação afirmativa do Ministério Público do Trabalho (2003-2012)

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Conceição, Eliane Barbosa da
• Orientador(a): Spink, Peter
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Programa de Promoção da Igualdade de Oportunidade para Todos; Política de promoção da igualdade racial; Ação afirmativa; Gestão da diversidade; Desigualdade categórica durável
• Link de acesso: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/10736

In recent years Brazil has advanced in terms of tackling racial inequalities. In 1995, then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso officially and publicly acknowledged not only the existence of racial discrimination and color prejudice in the country, but also the need to adopt public and private measures to tackle the problem. That same year created the Interministerial Working Group, which had the mandate to propose integrated actions to combat racial discrimination and recommend policies for the consolidation of citizenship of the black population. To forward the actions related to the labor market, in 1996 was created, under the Ministry of Labour, the Working Group on the Elimination of Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, whose mission was to define action programs that aimed to combat discrimination in employment and occupation. From there on, we have witnessed an increased permeability of the state to the demands and proposals of black social movements. Mark of this trend were the creation of SEPPIR - Secretariat for Policies to Promote Racial Equality in 2003, the approval of the Statute of Racial Equality in 2010 and the unanimous approval of quotas system for blacks in Brazilian higher education, by the Superior Court, in 2011. These, among others, are unquestionable achievements and showing that the country is experiencing a period of inflection in finding solutions to the racial problems that plague it. But if on the one hand these achievements represent major victories, especially when analyzed from a retrospective perspective, for since the abolition of slavery no state action had been directed to the solution of racial inequalities, on the other, we still have much to progress. A prospective outlook reveals that the gap created throughout these centuries could not be overcome in just 20 years. Much racial inequality remains. And much remains to be done. By 'mobilizing knowledge to solve relevant social problems' (FARAH, 2012) this dissertation seeks to contribute to the advancement of policies to promote racial equality in the country, particularly those focused on the labor market. It constitutes a case study of the Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for All, an initiative of the Ministry of Labor, which aimed to bring private organizations to adopt affirmative action to confront inequalities of gender and race in labor relations. For the conduct of the single case study, we undertook a qualitative study that used various research techniques such as participant observation, conversations, semi-structured interviews and analysis of documents and other stuff, and had social post-constructionism as its epistemological perspective (SPINK , 2005). We analyze the Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for All from the following variables: design, implementation, and first results. This analysis led us to undertake a review of national and international literature on diversity management, and the literature on durable inequality. The results of this study suggest that, in spite of the resistance faced for its implementation, the program has produced positive effects, but not only that, the results also indicate the limits of the program and necessary adjustments for future policies aimed at reducing racial inequality in labor market.