Representação e representatividade política da mulher no legislativo da Paraíba na legislatura de 2018

Abstract

The low representation of women in the Brazilian Legislature is a phenomenon already established by official data and specialized literature. Although the problem is officially admitted, including the adoption of an affirmative policy, the Law nº. 9.504/97, “quota law in politics”, which is aimed a percentage of 30% of applications for one of the genders, but it is interpreted as the establishment of this percentage for women’s applications. Tied to this low representation is the issue of feminist representation regarding the guarantee of rights for women. These rights are won in the chash fought in the public sphere, more precisely in the Legislature which is made up of few women. Based on this premise, from the Case Study of the current legislature of Paraiba, in which of 36 seats, only 5 are occupied by women, this work intends to evaluate the phenomenon of Political Representation and Representativeness of Women in Paraiba, taking as research sources 2,398 propositures of states representatives elected in 2018. For this, a descriptive research was carried out, with a qualitative approach and use of documentary and bibliographic research technique for data collection, treatment and analysis, anchored in the method of Content Analysis proposed by Bardin (1995). Regarding the analysis of data, specifically, the content of the proposals of state officials indicates that the female performance in the Legislative Assembly of Paraiba, in the current legislature, is sometimes figurative. Representatives of traditional political groups use wives, daughters and mothers to make up the quota for women, specifically to ensure the maintenance of power through these successions. In the new political groups, this action is militant, in the sense of defending actions contrary to those touted by traditional political groups, that relegate women to a secondary and supporting role in the political process, representation of women in politics.