A Defensoria Pública e o papel da mulher nas carreiras militares: um estudo sobre a representatividade feminina e as iniciativas institucionais voltadas ao tema no âmbito da Polícia Militar do Estado da Bahia, de 2019 a 2022

Abstract

In Brazil, women entered military careers around 1950, being a recent achievement in our democracy. In Bahia, the literature indicates that this access began in 1980. However, a model persists in which it is not common for women to occupy spaces in a significant way. Both from the point of view of access and from the point of view of advancement, it is necessary to evaluate the context in which this woman is inserted, addressing their level of representation within the Military Police of Bahia, forty years after their first entry. On the other hand, the Public Defender's Office, with the advent of LC 80/94, emerged as an institution focused on promoting Human Rights, with gender equality asits main banner. Within the scope of the internal organization of the Defender's Office, it is clear that the defense of military personnel cannot be dissociated from the critical outlook and values advocated as the foundations of the Defender's Office's raison d'être.This is the driving force for the limitation on the entry of women and the low representation in command posts to have been observed and questioned in a public hearing aimed at this purpose on February 6, 2020. Thus, the path forward points to the creation of an Observatory of Institutional Gender Violence organized by the Public Defender's Office with the aim of continually collecting more accurate data on the reality stated to support actions that may impact in some way on the given panorama. The observatory will also provide data on the reality of military firefighters, thus closing the state public security forces. The present study considers the theory of the glass ceiling (ceillingglass) in Daniela Versola Vaz, Laudicéia Soares de Oliveira, Andreia Valeria Steil and Cristina Tavares da Costa Rocha, from a feminist epistemological perspective and proposes to be structured in the field of everyday interactions .Instruments such as a historical and conceptual survey of central elements were used to better understand the career structure. Data collection and the state of the art are included to evaluate the current situation of women's role in this career, in the time frame from 2019 to 2022, evaluating legal and constitutional aspects to extract the data necessary to map the situation, and how This has repercussions on the proposal to create and structure an Observatory of Institutional Gender Violence in the Public Defender's Office. The research points to a gradual increase in representation, for now more present in access, as ascension to higher positions is slower.