“…Brazil's gender quota law is thus widely considered a failure (Araújo, 2010(Araújo, , 2017Miguel, 2008;Sacchet, 2012;Wylie and Santos, 2016;Wylie, 2018). Research has shown that women can succeed in the electoral arena in Brazil provided they have the political capital to do so (Araújo, 2010;Araújo and Borges, 2013;Bolognesi, Perissinotto, and Codato, 2016;Codato, Costa and Massimo, 2014;Miguel, 2003;Miguel, Marques, and Machado, 2015;Pinheiro, 2007, Sacchet andSpeck, 2012). Nevertheless, most parties lack the will and capacity to recruit and support viable women candidates (Wylie, 2018).…”