“Yes, they can!” The advances and obstacles in political representation as women’s empowerment in Brazil and India

Authors

  • Cicero Krupp da Luz Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas - FDSM
  • Bárbara Helena Simões Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas - FDSM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2318-8081.16.25

Keywords:

eminism, Public Representation, Brazil, India, Quotas.

Abstract

Brazil is a country that underestimates women’s political representation, the last one of which is comparatively compared to the number of women in the Parliament. However, in order to comply with the UN resolutions of the Conference on Women, the country has approved the quota law for women in the candidatures, which has proved to be inefficient. This article refers to the historical development of the feminist search for political rights to demonstrate that it was not for lack of political action that women are limited in representative positions. Obstacles and challenges in the social structure are continuous in terms of acquiring better and broader political spaces. Thus, the central objective of this essay is to discuss which measures are capable of increasing female participation in the current Brazilian electoral model. So, an analyzes of the Indian experience in the quotas policy in seats in the legislatures was made, assessing the possibility of its application in Brazil.

Author Biographies

Cicero Krupp da Luz, Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas - FDSM

Doutor em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professor da Graduação e do Programa de Mestrado em Constitucionalismo e Democracia da Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas na cidade de Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais. Coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa CNPq “Paradoxos do Direito Global”.

Bárbara Helena Simões, Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas - FDSM

Mestranda em Constitucionalismo e Democracia pela Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas.

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Published

2016-11-16

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016)

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