Women and democracy. Between the hegemonic vision and the social reality in a Mayan community

The objetive of this paper is to present the results of an ethnographic research focused on understanding the citizen participation of Mayan women with the vote, in one of the hihgest marginalization communitie in Latin America; Tadziu, Yucatán, México. All This since the premise to understanding the hegemonics mexican electoral polities, and the assimilation of women from their social and cultural context.Thus, assuming the Mayan woman as a being inserted in an established gender role, the hypothesis is raised that the Mayan woman is found under three labels that prevent her adequate development within the Mexican political system, although this refers to a A particular problem, the reality is that at the macro level, it means that democracy cannot be consolidated since it has not been possible to establish a sense of identity or belonging to the institutions. These labels are: the woman as possessor of the feminine gender; women as indigenous and women as rural.