Discover the history of women’s suffrage in Brazil

Find out when it began and the main names in the fight for women’s suffrage in Brazil.

The female vote has officially been won in Brazil92 years ago. However, the struggle and demands for women’s political participation began much earlier.

In fact, the first Brazilian voters voted in 1928. In 1910Leolinda Daltro she founded the first Brazilian women’s party and already in the 1891 constitution there was social pressure in favor creation of the vote for women.

The newspaper “A Família”, since the proclamation of the Republic, has stated this without female participation in elections the equality promised by the republican system would never have been achieved.

See a little more history of the female vote in Brazil and today’s political configuration.

Women’s fight for the right to vote

Arguments against women’s suffrage appeared in the most diverse forms. Some argued that with their political participation there would be a reversal of roles in society and “families” would be destroyed.

Look at this cartoon from 1927, for example:

Others went further and said that women don’t have the intellectual capacity to vote and should limit yourself to “household duties”. See one of the deputies’ declarations from 1891, reported in this article from the Agência Senado:

Lauro Sodré, deputy of Pará, said:

It is undeniable that, the moment we open the field of politics to women, they will necessarily have to give in to the superiority of our sex in this field.

However, these positions did not intimidate the suffragette movement. In the years that followed, the pressure to create women’s suffrage only increased. Along this path several names have emerged, here are some:

• Leolinda Daltro: created on Republican Women’s Party. He died in 1935 and, before his death, he said:

I am satisfied because, before he died, I saw Brazilian women go to the polls

• Carlota Pereira de Queiroz: The only woman elected in the 1933 elections, she fought for literacy and social assistance.
• Antonietta Barros: the first black woman elected in Brazil. She was elected from Santa Catarina, less than 50 years after abolition. You created “Teachers’ Day” and fought for education in the country.
• Bertha Lutz: feminist biologist who created the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women. She contributed to the creation of policies in the areas of education, labor, health and science.

The conquest of women’s suffrage occurred in 1932, in the provisional government of Getúlio Vargas. The first country to recognize women’s suffrage did so 40 years before Brazil, it was New Zealand, in 1893.

Women in politics today

Currently, women represent 52% of the Brazilian electorate and they are a decisive group for the outcome of the elections. They make up approximately 30% of the candidates and 15% of those elected.

In the 2022 election there were more than 9 thousand female candidates, most of them are running for state assemblyman positions. While the voters are 82,373,164 women.

However, female participation in politics has already achieved significant results There is much to do to achieve full equality.

By Tiago Vechi

Journalist

Source: Terra

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