III national plano of policies for women: gender mainstreaming and education

This article aims to understand how, from the point of view of the emphases, tensions and challenges, the government proposition of gender mainstreaming has been presented by Chapter 1 of the III National Plan of Policies for Women (2013-2015). For that, there was a cultural and documental analysis. The results indicate that mainstreaming of gender policies has been proposed as a guiding principle of this Plan. It presents, in particular in Chapter 1, in the form of a theoretical construct, based on the concept of economic autonomy; and as a practical construct, with actions for the professional education of poor women. Here is the economization of the social as proposed to operate with mainstreaming of gender policies, develop the economic autonomy of women and reducing gender inequalities in Brazil.