society. Using data of the 2014 federal election and the 2010 Census, this article exposes a
deeply unequal structure in the access to political power in Brazil: women, black people, the
less educated, workers and the poor are under-represented in Chamber of Deputies. Both
the opportunity to compete as the ability to be elected, the inequality of politics in Brazil
poses a huge challenge to the political incorporation of social diversity in Parliament. What …