Recently, in the province of Buenos Aires, the law of gender parity on the electoral lists was approved without heated debate about the "necessity" of the law, as well as justice or injustice of the new representation law.
As a result of the enactment of this law and the debate at national level that generated, our intention is to systematize the arguments for and against the political rights of women in Argentina. To get closer to our objective we will use as main source the shorthand versions of the parliamentary debates on occasion of the Buenos Aires parity law of 2016. For its novelty in our country, this law reactivated discourses contrary to the women´s participation that we already believed surpassed. This work looks for identify the arguments that show resistance to women's political participation, and how these arguments are
reissues of old arguments already spilled in the parliamentary area whenever this issue managed to enter the agenda politics.
We also consider that it is important to contextualize the present moment and, in order to construct situated knowledge, we make a brief historical tour of the political participation of women in Argentina. Our intention is to identify the discourses at play, constructors of feminine citizenship.
Keywords:
Parliamentary debates, gender parity, political rights of women
Cano, M. S., & Cano, J. E. (2018). Gender parity in Argentinian’s political debates. Revista Punto Género, (8), pp. 39 – 54. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2017.48400
