This paper presents a discussion of income-generating projects aimed at poor women. Aims to reflect on what opportunities they offer, while public policy, financial autonomy and the breaking of patterns based on the traditional sexual division of labor rooted in the false dichotomy between public and private. It also brings a debate on poverty among women since the prospect of these projects is to increase earnings from the family focus on women.
Sexual division of labor; Income generation; Neoliberalism; Poverty
