Where is womans place in politics ?
The Spanish professor of philosophy, Daniel Innerarity, analyses the way women are perceived in politics. “Michelle Perrot [French historian] has explained that the difference between men and women lies in the fact that only man is considered an individual, that is to say someone whose gender is transparent, who has freed himself from the group he belongs to and become what he makes of himself . The exclusion of women has operated by depriving women, literally and symbolically, of this individualisation. This is why the question of identity only comes up when a female candidate comes into the picture … . Man not only has possibilities of personal fulfilment because of the absence of discrimination, but because it is recognised that his worthiness only depends on what he does and the competency he acquires. According to the traditional role given to women, women are attributed characteristics that do not allow them to escape their condition: a woman, even the most intelligent and succ
