As the organ responsible for official Brazilian statistics, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE, with the publishing of its study Estatísticas de gênero: indicadores sociais das mulheres no Brasil (“Gender statistics: social indicators for women in Brazil”), reinforces the importance of
producing gender indicators with a dual objective: enriching the discussion, providing highlighted information on the subject, and corroborating the importance of maintaining a permanent public agenda which places gender equality as one of the axes to structure the formulation of public policies in Brazil