Política Pública Para Mulheres em Cachoeira: Uma análise do cumprimento do Pacto Nacional pelo Enfrentamento à Violência contra as Mulheres

Abstract

A few years ago it is seen that, through the pressure of the feminist movement, many legislative progress have occurred in projects, in the public policies, aiming to combat the violence against women. However, there are greats difficulties in making those standards and guidelines start to make a difference in the women’s lives, primarily those women who lives in inland cities and are underprivileged. With the intention to provide a greater understanding about the violence against women, there is a discussion about gender categories, violence and patriarchate, showing how this system was getting stronger over time through cultural ways, moral and standards of each period, which was expressed and ratified in the family, in religion and in the society. This work, of qualitative nature, craved to analyze the execution of the“Pacto Nacional de Enfrentamento à Violência Contra as Mulheres” in the city of Cachoeira (located at the Recôncavo of Bahia) based on bibliographical and documentary research, also based on interviews with the agents who are part of the municipal protection network and with women who already suffered any kind of violence. As a result of the research it is concluded that the consolidation and efficacy of the public policy of combating with effect inm the violence reduction, and the policy of guaranteeing the prevention and assistance, runs into the insistence of the patriarchate legacy and the public budget that implicates in lack of structure and specialized services to assist the women. It is seen also the evidence of lack of training in the professionals who work in these services. All these factors display the fragility in the structure of combating the violence against women in the city, contributing to the woman feel unprotected, unsafe and with discredit to the policy of combating the violence.