Cultural aspects that make it difficult for women to participate in electoral politics and the relationship with the public-private spheres

Abstract

This article presents a critical analysis of the process of women’s exclusion from public spaces, associated to cultural components, conforming a low participation of women in electoral politics. For this purpose, a bibliographic search from the data research process employed during the author’s doctoral thesis was used. Reflections are made on the dichotomy of the public and private spheres regarding the importance of descriptive participation from the point of view of gender democracy, but fundamentally as the empowerment process and the identification of further parliamentarians women with the feminisms would foster the substantive representation and, therefore, the commitment to feminist demands and public policies that generate advances in women's rights.