THE ABSENCE OF INTERSECTIONALITY IN PUBLIC POLICIES TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY IN BRAZILIAN POLITICS

Abstract

The absence of public policies that enable the increase of participation of black women in Brazil is a reality that contributes to in a large extent to the maintenance of inequalities and exclusion of significant strata of the Brazilian population in the construction of democracy because is by the active and representative political participation that realities inscribed within the rule of law can change. Based on this reality, the present article, through bibliographic review and analysis of empirical data research on the theme aims to discuss the lack of including intersectionality in the construction of measures that seek gender equality in national politics. This absence is resulting from the slavery historically present in the country and its racist legacy, as well as an elitist structure of national politics, which embarks the expansion of power to the black portion of the population. In this sense, a potential answer to the problem is the presented by Federal Deputy, Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio (PT/RJ) in consultation to the Superior Electoral Court (2019), which aims to create a racial quota for election system and the incidence of intersectionality in the public policy of campaign time reserve, a measure that has been implemented to increase female participation in politics, in the proportion of half and a half for white and black candidates and, from that, to avoid the oppression of race.