Uma análise comparada dos fatores relacionados a participação feminina em cargos eletivos em parlamentos.

Abstract

More than a hundred years after the first country, New Zealand, recognized women's suffrage, women are still a minority in elected positions in parliaments in most countries around the world. The percentages compared to male participation are discrepant, the average number of women occupying seats in world parliaments is only 26.4%. The fact that women have spent so many years away from the spaces of power has generated worldwide concern to resolve this gender inequality in politics. In this sense, this research aims to verify which factors influence female participation. To do so, it tests the variables of adoption of gender quotas, the women's political empowerment index, the gender inequality index, the time that the female vote was authorized, the time in which women ran in the election, and the time that the first woman was elected to parliament. The results demonstrate that only the first three variables are statistically significant.