2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00263.x
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Political Representation and Gender in Brazil: Quotas for Women and their Impact

Abstract: In the 1990s, Brazilian Congress approved an electoral quota for female candidates in parliamentary competition (with exception of the Senate). The reticence of the law and the peculiarities of the Brazilian open lists electoral system have given rise to concern that the quotas will fail. In fact, there has been no great increase in the number of women in Brazilian legislatives -there has been some change in the municipalities, a little less in the states and almost nothing at the federal level. Analysing in d… Show more

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“… Examples of quotas having strong numerical impact include countries such as Afghanistan, Argentina, and Rwanda (Dahlerup and Nordlund ; Franceschet and Piscopo ; Longman ). But other cases such as Brazil, France, Mexico, and Indonesia suggest that quotas can lead to small or even no immediate changes in representation for women (Miguel ; Murray ; Siregar ; Zetterberg ). For example, after a 50% quota was passed in France in 2000, women won only 19% of elected seats in the next National Assembly elections.…”
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“… Examples of quotas having strong numerical impact include countries such as Afghanistan, Argentina, and Rwanda (Dahlerup and Nordlund ; Franceschet and Piscopo ; Longman ). But other cases such as Brazil, France, Mexico, and Indonesia suggest that quotas can lead to small or even no immediate changes in representation for women (Miguel ; Murray ; Siregar ; Zetterberg ). For example, after a 50% quota was passed in France in 2000, women won only 19% of elected seats in the next National Assembly elections.…”
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“…On the other hand, the underrepresentation of marginalised groups has remained virtually unchanged over the last thirty years, despite the demographic importance of some of these groups such as the black population and women. The scarce representation of women in legislatures has triggered many debates on gender and representation (Alvares, 2008;Araújo 2001;Avelar, 2001;Grossi & Miguel, 2001;Lüchmann & Almeida, 2010;Matos, 2011;Mstos & Paradis, 2014;Miguel, 2008;Miguel & Biroli, 2011;Rezende, 2017;Sacchet, 2011).…”
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“…É no âmbito dessa discussão que se coloca o problema da definição das fronteiras entre consentimento e não-consentimento ou, em outras palavras, ganham destaque os problemas relativos à diferenciação entre as escolhas que são desdobramentos de interferências arbitrárias e aquelas que seriam legítimas, considerando que se trata de contextos permeados por relações de 10 Por outro lado, pesquisas realizadas em contextos diversos mostram que uma série de filtros continua a orientar e a limitar a posição de mulheres e homens na vida pública, no trabalho e na política, a partir de compreensões convencionais dos papeis sexuais, da divisão sexual do trabalho e de preferências que seriam fundadas no sexo biológico. Para análises de diferentes dimensões em que esses filtros têm impacto, em diferentes partes do mundo, conferir, entre muitas outras, Bonetti e Abreu (2011), Chun, Kim e Jo (2012), Campus (2010), Folbre (1994), Fox e Lawless (2012), Kahn (1996), Legerski e Cornwall (2010), Miguel (2008), Miguel e Biroli (2011), Paxton e Hughes (2007) e Pinheiro (2007). 11 No Brasil, a luta para consolidar a compreensão de que violência doméstica contra a mulher resulta de relações de gênero desiguais, que fez parte da atuação do movimento feminista ao longo de décadas, teve como um de seus principais resultados a aprovação da Lei n. 11340, conhecida como Lei Maria da Penha, em 2006.…”
Section: Consentimento Gênero E Vulnerabi-lidade Socialmente Caunclassified