Women in Engineering: Intersectionality Acting Through the Affirmative Actions

I (Instituto Anysio Teixeira). To reduce this situation, in 2000 Brazil started the implementation the affirmative action at universities, trying to reduce existing social inequality. Affirmative actions are social policies aimed at combating ethnic, racial, religious, gender, or caste discrimination, to promote the participation of minorities in the political process and access to education, healthcare, employment, and material goods, among others.