Cultura política e gênero na América Latina : estudo sobre as dimensões subjetivas da sub-representação feminina

Abstract

Over the last century, contemporary societies have experienced the development of more egalitarian attitudes towards the social roles of men and women through lifestyle changes , family , work and the public sphere . Because of these changes , the academic research have become more attentive to the situation of women in today's democracies , concerned primarily with understanding the dynamic relationships between civil rights and social structural , given the need to strengthen egalitarian policies . In general, these investigations have shown that, despite significant advances, there is still a severe political policy sub- frame representation of women on a global scale. The causes given for this gender inequality are of various orders, including cultural. As a result, the main objective of the research was to determine whether the recent change in the political culture in Latin America, towards the strengthening of support for democracy, has been accompanied by more egalitarian attitudes towards women's participation in politics. Therefore, the data produced by the WVS and the LAPOP were used, and over the years we found that Latin Americans are showing more egalitarian attitudes towards women , especially with regard to politics. In addition, the data indicated that the political culture of these individuals is increasingly directed to attitudes and behaviors consistent with democratic values. Thus, guided by these results, we investigated whether the values of a democratic political culture would be related to the perceptions and attitudes of citizens about the involvement of women in politics.