Female impoverishment in the democratic process: perspectives of decision-making power

Abstract

This article analises problem the impact of female impoverishment on the democratic process, critically analyzing care relationships and the removal of decision-making power. Using the deductive method, it aims to investigate the imbalance of power and the invisibility of unpaid domestic work, as well as its consequent non-recognition by the law. To this end, it delimits the study into the invisibility of women's domestic work; the asymmetries of power and the difficulty of participating in democratic life; care and removal from decision-making power and, finally, women's political poverty and the need to review the deficit of democratic protagonism. The movement to reflect on and denounce gender inequality focuses on the overlap between paid and unpaid work relationships developed by women, and the inescapable conclusion is that the maintenance of patriarchy and the normalization of female impoverishment is largely due to the solidity of incessant, permanent, invisible and unpaid domestic work. The indignity of simultaneous working hours leads to women's material and, above all, political poverty and, as a result, to their removal from power and from the democratic processes of discussion and deliberation.