In Latin America, do women vote for women?
The myth is that they dont. MR: Yes, thats a myth. The evidence shows that it is a lie. The problem is that statistics arent available in all countries for studying the issue, but where they are available, like in Chile, Peru and Mexico, women increasingly show a gender gap in their electoral behaviour. Women systematically vote for women, more than men vote for men. That is clear in the case of Chile, where we see that in all elections presidential, legislative and municipal there is a gender gap of between five and seven percent. If women have female candidates who they identify with from an ideological standpoint, they prefer to vote for them. What we also see in most countries is that men, as voters, are discriminating less and less against women. All of this shows that for women in the region, the obstacle is not gaining votes, but being nominated as candidates by the political parties. IPS: If there is already quite a lot of evidence on the validity and effectiveness of gender qu
