Políticas afirmativas e a sub-representatividade das mulheres nos cargos eletivos do Brasil: análise das eleições de 2014, 2018 e 2020

Abstract

This article analyzes the participation of women in Brazilian politics based on its historicity and in view of the affirmative public policies formally instituted with the aim of promoting such participation, it takes into account the normative revolution as the decision of the superior tribunals, which positively interfere in the inducement for their affiliation to party politics, considering the election and pleas. The applied data are available at the website of the Electoral Superior Court and they refer to the general elections of 2014 and 2018 and also to the municipal elections of 2020. It will be carried out an exploratory analyses of the data in order to quantify the female participation in Brazilian politics. The results indicate that there was an effective increase in female participation in politics, which also was seen as an electoral success of elective offices. Nevertheless, due to the percentage of women registered as constituent, as well as the amount of party allegiances, the statistics show that persist a female sub representativeness.