Gender quotas

2014 and 2018 elections for south Brazil deputies

Abstract

The Brazilian electoral system has been undergoing many changes to effectively provide a situation more accessible to women. This way, the most relevant change in recent years has been the implementation of gender quotas in politics. With the incoming of Law No. 12.034 of 2009, it became mandatory to respect the electoral quotas, however, at first, it did not have the expected effect and emerged as so-called "ghost candidacies". In an attempt to implement a real change in the political landscape, the judiciary reinterprets the legal standards applicable to the Party Fund, the Special Party Fund and the electoral propaganda time on female radio and television. From the new pattern of effecting electoral quotas, verified through statistical data from two general elections, an evolution in the fight against the gender disparity in the political environment and, for this, presents a comparative analysis of data from the General Elections of 2014 and 2018, for the federal and state deputy charges in the south of the country. Using the deductive method, the discussion was based on prepared tables from the information provided by the Superior Electoral Court on its website. The expected result was positive as the changes caused a significant increase in elected women in 2018 compared to the previous one. However, in addition to improving electoral rules and interpreting the quota deploy in the political scenario, the real issue must be disrupted, namely, the cultural basis of Brazilian society.