Eleonora Menicucci

Eleonora Menicucci
Secretary of Politics for Women
In office 10 February 2012 – 2 October 2015
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Iriny Lopes
Personal details
Born	Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira (1944-08-21) 21 August 1944 (age 77) Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Political party	PT (1980–present)
Alma mater	Federal University of Minas Gerais (B.Soc.Sc) Federal University of Paraíba (M.Soc.) University of São Paulo (Ph.D.)
Profession	Universitary professor, sociologist

Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira (Lavras, August 21, 1944) is a Brazilian sociologist and was Minister of the Secretariat of Policies for Women until Dilma Rousseff's Impeachment in 2016. She is a full professor in public health at Federal University of São Paulo. A member of the Workers' Party, and dedicated to feminism, she is favorable to the legalization of abortion in Brazil. Menicucci has a degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1974), MA in Sociology from the Federal University of Paraíba (1983), Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo (1990), post-doctorate in Health and Work of Women from University of Milan (1994/1995) and a teaching degree in Public Health from the School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (1996). She publishes research studies and articles on critical issues related to women in the fields of health, violence and labor. She is divorced and has two children.^[1]

Partial works[]

• (1999) A mulher, a sexualidade e o trabalho

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