Resumen

This specialized article is the result of a qualitative research that addresses the issue of female political participation in the municipality of Girardot, Cundinamarca in the context of Law 1475 of 2011, with the general objective of recognizing the electoral effects brought about by the implementation of the legal mandate Of quotas in the lists of candidates for political parties MIRA and ASI, and women who participated as candidates for the Council during the 2011 and 2015 electoral periods, through the historical review of the political participation of women in Colombia and the Gender perspective to understand the political inequality of women at both national and local levels.