El poder político subnacional en Argentina (1983-2019): trayectorias políticas previas y atributos personales en clave de género

Abstract

The academic literature on women’s political participation has focused on access and its condi- tions and, political trajectory in legislative branches at the national level, whereas studies focused on sub-national levels have been more scarce have. This article contributes to the study of the personal and social attributes, the political-party membership and the previous public trajectory in terms of gender of the people who held the highest provincial executive positions in Argentina. The quantitative methodological strategy implemented —not only descriptive but also inferential— has helped to demonstrate associations and relationships between varia- bles with statistical significance. The main findings indicate that there are no significant differ- ences in terms of age but in the number of children and educational level. Regarding previous political trajectories, it is observed that women have mainly held seats in the legislative branches and men have occupied seats in the executive branches.