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Political parties, especially those expected to be able to privide opportunities for women to be able to engage in politics and improve the quality of women in political parties. This study aimed to analyze the policy of every political in recruiting the women legislative members in the election 2014 – 2019 in Bantaeng Regency. The research was qualitative descriptive study. The informants were chosen using the purposive sampling technique. The data were collected using in-depth interviews, observation, and document reviews, and the analyzed using the technique of descriptive analysis with a qualitative model approach, i.e data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion/verification. The study results indicated that the policy on each political party in recruiting the female legislative candidates was based on Law Number 2 of 2008, which stated that the Political Parties (Parpol) which participated in the Election Must Nominated 30% of the Female Candidates in the permanent list of their legislative candidatess; besides, each political party should have their own recruitment of their legislative members. The could be seen in some stages and steps in teh recruitment on the legislative candidates by the political parties. This could be started with the socialization of the prospective candidates regristation, administrative selection, interviewing test, then the legislative candidate winning body (Bappilu) was determined of the legislative candidates. As for the grants of the serial numbers for the legislative candidates, each political party would give the priority to the partys candres who were recomended by the general chair of the political party as well as the Election Winning Body (Bappilu). Finally, the determined candidates were registered to the General Election Commission (KPU) of Bantaeng Regency to be given the serial numbers are as the candidates of the legislative members.