RT Article
T1 The (il)legal limitation of women’s recruitment into Brazilian military police forces
JF Policing and society
VO 31
IS 9
SP 1051
OP 1065
A1 Pivetta, Luciane B. D.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1776231198
AB The underrepresentation of women in law enforcement institutions is a global pattern. However, increasing awareness of gender inequality is stimulating the implementation of affirmative action policies to encourage women into policing, especially in developed countries. Despite this, Brazil is moving in the opposite direction. This study investigates the latest military police recruitment programmes of all Brazilian states, as well as the laws that regulate these processes. This research shows that 74% of the latest recruitment programmes explicitly restricted the selection of female officers to a maximum threshold. Therefore, instead of promoting diversity, recruitment has imposed barriers to female integration, widening the gender gap in police forces. Moreover, this unjustifiable limitation violates the rights to equality and non-discrimination, protected not only in the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 but also in several international conventions ratified by Brazil.
K1 Diversity
K1 Non-discrimination
K1 Gender Equality
K1 Police
K1 Brazil
DO 10.1080/10439463.2020.1786090