Participation and political empowerment of women in the XXI century: An Ibero-American approach to build a bioethical position

Purpose/ Background. This article seeks to categorize the topics described in em-pirical studies on the most outstanding concepts and research in the field of political participation and empowerment that helps to build a bioethical position for women. Methodology/Approach. A qualitative review of the literature is made, of a descrip-tive type, bibliographic search, retrieval of studies, systematization, selection, primary analysis, evaluation and analysis by topic. The analysis focuses on Latin America, since it encompasses research with similar characteristics in the object of study, women in their various dimensions and how the field of participation and empowerment of these is seen in the countries of the region.Results/Findings. Out of 63 documents, the topics found are addressed as follows: 19% refer to bioethics and gender; 35% refer to the political participation of wo-men; 17% of the texts address gender studies, and 29% of the articles refer to the empowerment of women.Discussion/Conclusions/Contributions. There is no empirical production on the po-litical empowerment of women from a bioethical perspective. The need to build own developments from bioethics from a feminist and gender perspective is highlighted.