The present article discusses central hypothesis that guide a large empirical research, still under development, about the intersections of gender, media and polítical representation. Analysing the presence and acting of women in the political field and their presence in the media, in Brasil, the study aims to understand the relationships between those spheres concerning the problems related to the representation of women in politics. In the field of politics and in the media, we can find mechanisms that limit not only the presence of women but also the configurations of that presence. Thus, the article discusses how the remaining of gender stereotypes limits women's political action and its visibility in the news, in a process in which one of these terms feeds back the other.
media; gender; political representation; political field