Democratic participation has been transformed by digital communication technologies, increasing opportunities for political expression, mobilization, and representation (Norris, 2001; Bennett & Segerberg, 2012). Simultaneously, these platforms have facilitated novel forms of gendered hostility, commonly referred to as digital misogyny (Jane, 2017; Ging & Siapera, 2018). This paper examines the impact of digital misogyny on women’s participation in contemporary democratic politics. Drawing on feminist political theory, political communication scholarship, and Internet studies, the study conceptualizes digital misogyny as a form of gendered political violence that operates through psychological deterrence, reputational harm, and structural exclusion (Krook, 2020; Citron, 2014). Using a hypothetical mixed-methods research design that combines computational content analysis of social media data, survey-based measures of political participation, and qualitative interviews with women political actors, the paper demonstrates that exposure to online misogyny significantly reduces women’s willingness to engage in political discourse, pursue leadership roles, and contest elections. The findings further indicate that digital misogyny distorts democratic deliberation by systematically marginalizing women’s voices. The paper concludes that digital misogyny is not merely a social media problem but a democratic governance issue requiring coordinated institutional, legal, and platform-level interventions (Sobieraj, 2018; UNESCO, 2021).