Women are responsible for important results in the public sector, but their participation as politicians is still small. One possible way of correcting this situation in the future will be to increase the degree to which adolescent girls participate in politics. The literature about women's empowerment has identified that adolescent girls participate more in politics when role model women are elected. Unlike this literature, however, we run a regression discontinuity design and we show that the defeat of a woman also leads to other women being discouraged from participating. Our main idea is that the performance of female politicians has an influence on the engagement in politics of adolescent girls. Our measure of this engagement is not generated by measuring the perception of the aspirations of adolescent girls, but is taken from net registration to vote between Brazilian municipalities with victorious and defeated female leaders (mayors). Two mechanisms are important for explaining our results: the exchange of experiences between adolescent girls of different ages, and informal (through the Internet and public Wi-Fi) and formal (through the municipal anti-discrimination program) information.

妇女对公共部门的重要成果负有责任，但她们作为政治家的参与仍然很少。未来纠正这种情况的一种可能方法是增加少女参与政治的程度。The literature about women's empowerment has identified that adolescent girls participate more in politics when role model women are elected. 然而，与这些文献不同的是，我们运行了回归不连续性设计，并且我们表明女性的失败也会导致其他女性被劝阻参与。我们的主要观点是，女性政治家的表现会影响少女的政治参与。我们对这种参与的衡量不是通过衡量对青春期女孩的愿望的看法而产生的，但从网络登记中提取到巴西市政当局与获胜和失败的女性领导人（市长）之间的投票。两种机制对于解释我们的结果很重要：不同年龄少女之间的经验交流，以及非正式（通过互联网和公共 Wi-Fi）和正式（通过市政反歧视计划）信息。