Female underrepresentation in brazilian parliaments and the need to implement public policies aimed at the inclusion of women in these spaces

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the situation of female underrepresentation in national parliaments, based on a study of data extracted from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and the norms that came into force after the promulgation of the Citizen Constitution of 1988. In view of
the numerous achievements, it appears that women occupy less than 15% of parliamentary positions, so that the need to implement public policies to promote gender equality in political spaces emerges, that is, the adoption of a system of complementary quotas to the existing one in order to seek greater female participation-representation in national parliaments.