Study shows more women in government have less corruption

A study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization by researchers Chandan Cuma Jha and Sudipta Sarangi, Department of Economics, University of Virginia Tech in the United States, pointed out that corruption is lower when the women participate in greater numbers in the government. The analysis has been done in more than 150 countries, including Brazil.

In local politics in Europe, for example, the likelihood of corruption is lower in areas where women's representation is higher. The study also shows that spending on education and health accounts for a larger share of total public spending if more women sit in parliament and this could be the way in which women can influence Corruption.

The article refutes the hypothesis that the gender differences observed in the attitude towards corruption are entirely due to differences in social status between the sexes and will disappear over time when women will acquire a more egalitarian socio-economic status.

The higher the status of countries with more women in government, the lower the level of corruption.

The survey of researchers is the most comprehensive on the subject and examines the implications of the presence of women in other professions, including the participation of women in the labor market, posts administrative and decision-making positions. In other words, these results do not necessarily mean that women are intrinsically less corrupt than men. But it is in the formulation of new policies generally made by men that women can have an impact on corruption.

Brazil

The law in force in the country provides that at least 30% of female candidates In 2016, however, women accounted for 86% of the 18,500 candidates who were not female. have not received a vote.

According to the professor of anthropology of the University of Brasilia, Lia Zanotta Machado, women are still underrepresented in politics. "It does not matter how much 30% of women have to apply, it does not work in practice.Open space for" oranges ", candidates enrolled only to meet the quota.In most cases, the parties do not give any. space, support or access to the party fund.Being more female candidates needs actions stronger than us.Women should be effective in at least 30% within Congress and not just as that they are disadvantaged against the prevailing machismo within the parties, which explains why they are so seldom elected. "

She emphasizes the importance of empowering women and states who culturally they are educated to take care of their neighbors. "Home schooling reinforces the view that it is the woman's role as a caretaker." Through her own feminine culture, the woman has learned to look more towards others, for the more This is why the policies they develop are more focused on the following: Women who have a career in leadership tend to have less corruption and the trend is also to require people who are not corrupt, "he says Despite being 54% of the Federal District electorate, where there are 159,354 more women than men, they occupy six of the 36 existing elective positions (24 seats of the district deputy, eight, one deputy federal, three senator and one of governor) .In the legislative chamber, there are five women – 20.8 per cent of the positions, there is no representative in the Senate and only 14 women occupy subdistrict positions.

Brazil occupies the 11 5th place in the world ranking of women's presence in parliament, among the 138 countries analyzed by the Project Inspiring Women (PMI). Based on the database of the World Bank and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and published in 2017, the study traced the ranking of women's presence in parliament. The countries with the highest percentage of women in Parliament are Rwanda (63.8%), Bolivia (53.1%), Cuba (48.9%), Iceland (47.6), Sweden Senegal (42.7%), Mexico (42.4%), South Africa (41.8%), Ecuador (41.6%) and Finland (41.7%) , 5%).