This Policy is designed to establish guidelines, general rules and basic criteria to encourage rural activity by women, their qualified inclusion in agricultural activity, the development of actions that result in respect for their productive capacity and professional potential, as well as guaranteeing their emotional, physical and psychological fulfillment. The purpose of the State Policy is to encourage women to work in rural areas, with the following objectives: boosting the qualified inclusion of rural working women by promoting events aimed at training and strengthening their competencies in rural work; guaranteeing rural women access to education; encourage greater participation by rural women workers in the Brazilian agricultural sector, offering subsidies for the creation of public policies aimed at women; prioritize access to resources, subsidies and public policies aimed at agriculture in the State for women who are heads of rural establishments; carry out campaigns to value the role of women in the countryside and to encouraging rural women to work, with the dissemination of good agricultural practices; provide sustainable socio-economic development of rural establishments headed by women, improving the quality of life and reducing gender inequalities, etc.
Brazil · 2024-06-20