Motivações do voto e a sub-representação feminina na política partidária em Campina Grande.

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is the exercise of research and understand the motivations of voting choices, and if the machismo still present in our society interferes, and to what extent, in the choice of female candidates. To do so, we are using an anthropological perspective, through the study of the symbolic meanings, values, customs and practices of this voter to define who should and who wants to vote, in order to understand why there is still a female under- representation in politics, even in the face of incentive campaigns promoted by the Electoral Court, even though they have a majority in the electorate, being more educated than men, with the Quotas Law and with a significant number of female candidates for different positions in politics, yet few women obtains success in electoral campaigns. The survey was conducted from June to October 2016 (electoral period), in the city of Campina Grande-PB, where we interviewed 16 voters from this city and for data collection we used interviews with semi-open script. Based on these premises we instigate if the gender issue is an element considered by the elector to decide their vote. What we can perceive throughout our research is that female underrepresentation in politics is tied to the culture of our society, because there is still shivers of machismo and patriarchalism, which determines places of women and men, even in the face of so many struggles and conquests are still perpetuating stereotypes related to women that prevent them from competing, in an egalitarian way, the spaces of power.