Debates on parity in the Chilean constitutional process: Challenges for the future

Abstract

This paper studies the treatment of parity throughout the Chilean constitutional process and, in particular, the various interpretations that inspired the normative instruments that regulated it: from the election of the conventional ones, to the innovative and disruptive concept that was included in the General Regulations of the Convention, and finally to the classic formulation that materialized in the proposal for the Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, of July 4, 2022. We will analyze how the second of them raised new debates, and some doubts about to its relevance to achieving equality between women and men, which in some way diverted it from its initial purpose. All this contextualized in a historical moment that exerted an undoubted influence on what happened, while projecting questions and challenges for the future.