Participação da mulher na política de São Sebastião do Umbuzeiro-Paraíba.

Abstract

Gender inequality is a theme that has been discussed in the academies for a long time. According to Joan Scott (1975) gender inequality is not something innate to the subject, but a social and historical construction. Patriarchalism is a strategy of male domination that is anchored in the discourse that man should be the provider of the family and that women have as their main function to provide the home. Pierre Bourdieu in his work "DOMINATION MALE" (2003) emphasizes that gender inequality is embedded in social institutions, since each institution for the French sociologist is chosen by the subject from its gender, making social institutions segregated by male and female classifications. As politics is a social institution, gender inequality is also present. Bourdieu (2003) argues that politics is a masculine environment, but women are gaining more and more space to participate in an emphatic way in the decisions that govern their particular nation. In this context, the research problem is: To understand how women's participation in the politics of São Sebastião do Umbuzeiro occurs. In order to reach the goal suggested in the work and account for the problem, I use the qualitative-quantitative methodology as a research method. The techniques of data collection used in this research were the interview, questionnaire and database. However, it can be seen that, faced with a long period of exclusion in the female participation in the political scenario, it is evident that there has been a simple evolution in the political framework, but it is still not a reason to celebrate, since the number of women in the Brazilian scenario, specifically in the Umbuzeirense conjuncture is still much smaller than the one of the masculine sort.