THEM IN POLITICS: RIGHTS AND PROBLEMS OF LOW FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN BRAZILIAN POLITICS

Abstract

The gender inequality in politics can be easily identified by the low quantity of women occupying elective positions. This lack of representativeness reflects on the inefficiency of laws and public policies that assure equal rights to women in all aspects of life, perpetuating problems like violence, excess of home chores, wage inequality and the subaltern way that they are seen by society. The research tried to study the fight for women’s politic rights, analyse the current data on female’s participation in politics, the reflexes on its low occupation, as well as observe measures that can be taken to overcome this reality, using a qualitative method with descriptive and exploratory focus, through data, bibliographic and documental investigation.  It was concluded that many factors are responsible for gender inequality, mainly the historical and cultural ones on the construction of a female stereotype which considers that in politics there is no place for women. It was testified that to promote gender equality it is necessary the propagation of education and awareness on the negative impacts of low female representativeness to all the population, as well as the creation of campaigns to overcome electoral and political violence, of incentive and information to female candidates and also the support of political parties on behalf of the inclusion of women in the political environment.