Revista Mundos do Trabalho (Jan 2021)

Female voters: political participation and female electoral behavior in the 1950s in São Paulo

  • Murilo Leal Pereira Neto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2021.e74609
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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The text analyzes the electoral behavior and political participation of women in unions, women’s associations, neighborhood-friendly society and, in particular, their behavior as voters in the 1954 elections. Factors such as education, participation in the labor market and the status of women in the civil code are considered, seeking to understand the possibilities of female participation in formal spaces of politics and the consequences of their collective actions in the creation of new forms and spaces

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