Lugar de mulher é na política: reflexões sobre candidaturas femininas em pleitos eleitorais no Espírito Santo a partir de 1988

Abstract

The present work aims to carry out a critical analysis on the political participation of women throughout history, mainly in the state of Espirito Santo. This is because, the rate of participation of women in political positions in Brazil is incipient, in this sense, factors such as machismo, patriarchy and misogyny, among others, do not allow progress in relation to these factors. In this way, the work starts from the analysis of historical and social factors that lead women to reach such low numbers in elections. Furthermore, throughout the work, we emphasize the importance of the presence of women in political leadership positions, because the rate of violence against women is frightening in our country and, especially, in the state of Espírito Santo, therefore, we need representatives who know and want to change the current situation surrounding our state. To demonstrate this need, we will bring rates of violence against women around the state and also the percentage of women elected in Greater Vitória in positions such as that of councilors, state deputy, senators and federal deputies. With the collection of data, we could observe that the growth of political participation from 1988 to 2020 was negligible and, many times, not even an increase was possible to notice, but a reduction, these results being worrying, since the Brazilian electorate is represented 52.5% of women, but as elected, they are nowhere near that percentage