📋 Tender Overview
The Senate approved on Wednesday (16) bill that prohibits, in the selection processes for scholarships and research, discrimination against students and researchers due to gestation, childbirth, child birth or adoption. The rule applies to higher education institutions and research promotion agencies. It follows the presidential sanction.
The bill, by Deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP), was approved in the Plenary according to the opinion of Senator Leila Barros (PDT-DF) in the Education Commission (CE), only with a change of writing. Because they had no changes that affect the merit, he did not have to return to the House.
By the text, they constitute discriminatory criterion personal questions about family planning in interviews in these selection processes. Those who practice discrimination is subject to administrative procedure.
The project also extends in two years the period of evaluation of scientific productivity in case of maternity leave, in addition to the period originally stipulated by the promotion institution. For the rapporteur, the proposal guarantees equal rights, especially for women, who are the main victims of this type of discrimination. The text is entitled to the public science and technology system of Brazil, which has struggled to suppress prejudice and discrimination in their internal processes and certainly strengthens the approval of projects such as what we now enjoy, in order to prevent discrimination events from happening in these institutions so important to science in our country, says Leila Barros in the opinion of CE.
