Desigualdade de gênero e direito: uma análise da participação feminina na construção da sociedade brasileira

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the debate for equal civil and political rights between women and men has gained strength in the West, the first expressions of this trend being the suffragist movements and workers' struggles of the 1900s. female participation in the construction of Brazilian society has evolved a lot. However, there is still much to be done in the search for the realization of the much-vaunted equality that has been stamped in several Brazilian constitutions since the end of the last century. The present work approaches this theme from a legal and historical point of view, making a brief description of the most important moments for the achievement of gender equality by women. At first, we sought to demonstrate how gender inequality has always been present in Brazil, needing to be, sometimes, energetically fought by the legislator. After a brief explanation was made about the process of female emancipation in Brazil and at the end it was concluded by demonstrating how the national judiciary itself is still lacking in female participation, maintaining social standards evidently oriented by the male portion of the population.