Paridade de gênero : machismo estrutural e a representatividade feminina na política

Abstract

The respective work emphasizes gender issues in politics, in addition to highlighting the historical issues in which they were predominant so that women could have a voice and a place in the public scenario in the social and political spheres. In addition, the importance of the women who continued this process was analyzed, highlighting big names and revealing their performance in continuing this struggle that has been constant until the present day. The present work refers to Structural Machismo and Female Representation in Politics, more specifically representations about gender and politics, as well as what concerns the interaction between gender and other socioeconomic variables as explanatory factors of the differential representations about politics. Structural machismo is when men and women are differentiated more by characteristics that end up disturbing the individual socially. As much as women have a higher level of education, they end up not being able to climb higher than men, factors such as personal evaluation that hinder this aspect - closely linked to the woman's role as mother, housewife, wife. Structural machismo is the result of a patriarchal society, where the family nucleus has always been the woman's responsibility. Keywords: Women in politics. The realization of gender equality in politics. Representativeness. Democracy