Women, Gender and Political Participation in Latin America

Reflecting on the historical significance of the leading presence of Latin American women in these times is an urgency, both to understand their situation, and to shed light on the course that, after centuries of discrimination, has allowed them to do so today. It has obviously been a dense and thorny path, full of obstacles, cultural, religious, social, economic, but above all, political. All of them have been overcome, from their almost anonymous participation in the independence processes, to the steep legal-regulatory feat in multinational organizations that has allowed them to overcome, at least from a formal point of view, all kinds of discrimination. Specifically, from the research that results in this article, the objective is to interpret the characteristics of the sociopolitical leadership of women in Latin America, seen from the perspective of gender equality and the plurality of discourses and practices that underlie these movements. social that unite women in solidarity. Methodologically, the guide is a documentary investigation, supported by a hermeneutical and critical exercise. It can be concluded that the role of women in the sociopolitical organization of Latin American society has yet to be vindicated, but its legal and even cultural bases have already been established.