AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS AND THE RIGHT TO GENDER EQUALITY: THE RESERVATION OF VACANCIES FOR WOMEN IN PUBLIC COMPETITIONS OF THE BAHIA MILITARY POLICE

Abstract

The reduced number of women in the Military Police of Bahia demonstrates the relevance of reserving vacancies in this institution's public examinations as an affirmative action that guarantees the constitutional right to gender equality, in light of the principle of Isonomy, since, in art. 5th of the Federal Constitution says that everyone is equal and that there should be no distinctions between women and men. For this to be effective, however, one must understand how the number of vacancies allocated to women in Bahia Military Police competitions is distinguished and whether gender equality is in fact respected, analyzing whether the differentiation of vacancies by sex ensures and encourages female participation or restricts it, given the imposition of a minimum reserve in military notices in Bahia, which reflect the perpetuation of the national scenario that occurred in other States. In light of this perspective, the present study integrates aspects of the methodology of bibliographical research through the verification and analysis of literature with the use of documents for comparison, aiming to examine the last three notices of the public competition for admission to the Officer Training Course of the Military Police of Bahia, considering that they are the most current, as well as the laws of Bahia that deal with the subject, the expected results are: the prevalence of the lack of concrete foundations and scientific studies that corroborate the lack of disparate numbers of relative vacancies to sex in such competitions, which ratifies the infringement of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988, imposing limits for women to exercise their rights.