Abstract
Gender discrimination against women in the labor market remains a global scourge. This situation is even more aggravated in the case of women prisoners or ex-prisoners, who suffer not only from gender bias, but from their involvement with the criminal world. In this context, the present work aimed to propose the incorporation of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) proposed by the United Nations (UN), as a new criterion for the granting of the National Seal of Social Responsibility for Prison Work (RESCUE). The RESCUE, created in 2017 by the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN), of the Brazilian State, has the purpose of recognizing the initiatives of public and private institutions that hire people deprived of their liberty or those released from the national prison system. For this purpose, bibliographic and documentary research was carried out on Brazilian doctrine and legislation, as well as on UN documents. It was concluded that there is a need and urgency for the Brazilian State to improve the mechanisms for the inclusion of women in the labor market, especially in the case of those prisoners or those who are discharged from the penitentiary system, being RESCUE an important initiative that can be significantly improved by including WEPs, as one of the criteria for its award.
Highlights
In 2000, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), launched the Global Compact (PG-UN), with the purpose of promoting companies to align their strategies and activities around ten principles structured in three areas: human rights, work and the environment (Annan, 2000)
RESCUE was created in 2017 by the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN), of the Brazilian State, with the purpose of recognizing the initiatives of public and private institutions that hire people deprived of their liberty or egressed from the national prison system, in view of the difficulty of their insertion in the labor market
The research was exploratory, explanatory, and descriptive. Exploratory because it intends to provide a broad and general view of the gender discrimination against women in prison or those who are discharged from the Brazilian prison system, with a view to clarifying existing concepts and their historical-temporal and spatial contextualization
Summary
In 2000, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), launched the Global Compact (PG-UN), with the purpose of promoting companies to align their strategies and activities around ten principles structured in three areas: human rights, work and the environment (Annan, 2000). Based on Objective 5 (Gender Equality), the PG-UN and UN Women approved, in 2010, the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) so that business entities could incorporate gender equity values and practices as a way to empower women. In this context, the present work aims to propose the incorporation of WEPs as a criterion for the granting of the National Seal of Social Responsibility for Prison Work (RESCUE).
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