A mulher no espaço político institucional – da luta pelo direito ao voto à ascensão e deposição da primeira mulher na Presidência do país

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze, foremost, the dichotomies of gender inside the politics space. As starting point, we will study the first manifestations for the education’s right and the universal vote, this being from names like LeolindaDaltro e Bertha Lutz. After winning the right to vote and the subsequent possibility of become not just voters but electeds women became part of the body of deputies, senators, governors and the presidency, little by little. However, what is the levels of gender equality achieved by women, until now? Are men and women numerically equal in the institutional political space? Did gender quotas, created in the second part of 1990s, effectively influence the presence of women in political positions? This study seeks to examine the representation of women in the current political scenario and then aims to analyze the trajectory of the first woman president of Brazil, DilmaRousseff. Elect from Partido dos Trabalhadores in 2010, Rousseff suffered sexists and misogynistc attacks by the national media who saw her status as woman as a basis for insults – insults these that saw not just the president’s public depreciation, but pull her out of power by means of a legal-civil coup, occurred in 2016, two years after her reelection.