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This application is the result of the intense and constant gender debate in its most diverse fields. In particular, it seems to be increasingly difficult to think about contemporary democracy without taking into account the new configurations on gender issues in their different and controversial shades, we are referring here to the borders, which in many cases lack clear contours, among feminist theories and gender theories.

Regarding the more specific dimension of the relationship between democratic deepening and feminism, a relevant theme is the debate on the ways in which women effectively enter the field of politics and, more specifically, female political representation. It is common knowledge that women's access to political rights only came from an intense social organization that became known, in the history of feminist movements, of the first wave of feminism that claimed the establishment of equal political rights between men and women, in the European context this movement became known as "suffragists" and only partially achieved its goal in 1918 with the promulgation of the female vote in the United Kingdom.

In Brazil, the struggle for women's political citizenship is also marked by an intense female mobilization initiated by Nísia Floresta in 1832 when she wrote the article entitled: “Women's rights and men's injustices” in which she denounced the exclusion of women from the right to education that , in turn, produced the adjacent exclusion from public life which sets in motion a vicious cycle of injustice.

Another important moment of the feminist struggle in Brazil and the formation, in 1910, of the Republican Feminist Party founded by Leonilda Daltro and whose objective was to promote female cooperation for the progress of the country, combat exploitation related to sex and claim the right to vote , there were many attempts by the party to present and vote on a bill on the female vote, but without success. Only in 1932 through Decree nº 21,076 instituted in the Brazilian Electoral Code, and consolidated in the 1934 Constitution, women started to exercise the right to vote in Brazil. However, it is important to note that political rights are not restricted to access to the right to vote, which makes it essential to analyze the effective conditions for the participation of women in politics, we are referring here to the entry of women in the field of political representation, that is, the candidacy / election of women in Brazil and the social, political and cultural obstacles that these women encounter when entering the electoral dispute.

In the current Brazilian context marked by the progressive escalation of hate speech in the political / electoral field, which, despite its variety of attacks, clearly has a sexist and sexist tone, it is urgent to debate the importance of women's political representation, this debate demands , among other things, having easier access to female proposals and candidacies in Brazil.

Sensitized by the importance and urgency of a tool like this, some students, who are currently part of the Study Group on Contemporary Political Theory (DOXA) at the Federal University of Piauí, faced the challenge of creating a platform that not only aggregates information, at the municipal level , as well as allowing easy access to information, it was with this objective in mind that this project was born and is now materialized, we hope that it can contribute to the widening of the debate and strengthening of the feminist struggle for the effective right to women's political citizenship and the advance towards a society with gender equality.