The study evaluates the performance the process of the social participation around of the national conventions of the public policies, that they had taken place in 2003 to 2006, putting in relief the improvement and the challenge.

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the main gender impacts generated by the recent Brazilian pension reform. The authors chose to focus attention on the two main rule alterations in the major pension regime (the RGPS administered by INSS): 1) the new benefit calculation formula, and 2) the...