Experiences et strategies de femmes investies dans un “monde d’hommes”: le cas de la politique locale portugaise

The article presents a research on the gender dynamics operating in a tokenism context: politics. Twenty-two Portuguese female politicians were interviewed. Their strategies to get a place in the masculine world of politics is mainly determined by the age: whereas the older women fight against gender discriminations and favor women’s skills, the younger value the superwoman profile that distance themselves from their socially dominated group, at the risk of denying the experienced discrimination, and are very attached to the meritocratic ideology threatened by the quotas.