Of the 11 political parties that have seats in Congress, only one is headed by a woman; she was a candidate in the presidential elections and holds a deputy's seat, thus introducing a new element to the political scene and calling attention to the urgency of getting women more intensively involved in politics.

The Court stated that "the petitioner was barred in the absence of any objective criterion to prove that, as a woman, she was unable to carry out surveillance duties at the Santa Clara petroleum storage site, which precisely demonstrates the discriminatory nature of the action taken by SOS Ltda. and Ecopetrol S.A., which, in the absence of any criterion of necessity, suitability or indispensability and thus in a prejudicial manner without any objective or reasonable grounds, had used gender as a factor to bar her from being hired for that surveillance position".