Abstract

SANTOS, Maria Helena; ROUX, Patrícia  and  AMANCIO, Lígia. Experiences and strategies of women invested in a “man’s world”: the case of Portuguese local politics. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2016, n.82, pp.69-87. ISSN 0873-6529.  https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2016826945.

The article presents a research on the gender dynamics operating in a tokenism context: politics. Twenty-two Portuguese female politicians were interviewed. Their strategies to get a place in the masculine world of politics is mainly determined by the age: whereas the older women fight against gender discriminations and favor women’s skills, the younger value the superwoman profile that distance themselves from their socially dominated group, at the risk of denying the experienced discrimination, and are very attached to the meritocratic ideology threatened by the quotas.

Keywords : tokenism; politics; gender; discrimination; discourses.

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