Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANNA LUISA BOTELHO SGADARI PASSEGGI

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STUDENT : ANNA LUISA BOTELHO SGADARI PASSEGGI
DATE: 31/05/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual
TITLE:

Women's political representation in the city council of Natal: the activities of the members of parliament during their mandates from 2009 to 2022

KEY WORDS:

Representation. Women. Politics. City Council.

PAGES: 103
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The 1988 Federal Constitution enshrines, as the first individual right, the right to equality. Art. 5 brings the word not once, but twice in the heading. Besides universal equality, equality between men and women merited special mention in item I, following the understanding already established in international law in the sense of creating special systems of protection. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was drafted in this context, and its Article 4, section 1 expressly included the possibility of adopting temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women. The gender quota system for political candidacies is a response to this international commitment, expressly cited in the first bills that gave rise to it, in 1995, contemporarily with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. In retrospect, the policy of gender quotas has undergone several legislative changes in Brazil, without having reached the levels set forth in the Beijing document. In this context, the question that guided the present work was whether the quota policy presents an adequate solution to the problem of female representation. In order to answer these questions, the present study proposes a local cut, and focuses on the legislative production of the women councilors of the City of Natal in the period from 2009 to 2022. For this purpose, primary public databases produced by the City Council of Natal were used. The legislative processes were selected by authorship - all of them having a woman as their first author - and through a research of key-words in the menus we tried to establish which ones were directly connected to women and their interests, in an attempt to verify how often such themes were dealt with by the members. Based on the results, we tried to map how these themes were dealt with, taking into consideration the field of municipal legislative competence. The analysis took into account quantitative and qualitative aspects of the data, and offers an approximate panorama of the period, as well as seeking to articulate the empirical data with the legislative changes of the period, and the number of councilwomen per legislature, and the profile of the members. With the results presented, the study hopes to contribute empirical data to the understanding of the relationship between substantive and descriptive representation, between the adequate implementation of gender affirmative policies and the increase in representativity of legislative bodies.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1259912 - RENATA OLIVEIRA ALMEIDA MENEZES
Interno - 1205069 - WILLIAM EUFRASIO NUNES PEREIRA