This study analyses the effects of changes in campaign financing rules on the funding of female candidacies in the 2018 elections. In the beginning of 2018 the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ruled that 30 per cent of the money political parties received from the Party Fund and the Electoral Fund, respectively, should be used to finance female candidacies. A few months later elections were held under the new legislation. Combining a descriptive analysis with a Multi-Way Fixed Effects and Differences in Differences empirical framework I investigate the effects of these changes using data from the TSE electoral data repository. Results suggest that not every party nominally complied with the law and among those who complied factors such as the increase in vice and substitute candidates combined with the use of Laranja candidacies hampered its efficacy. Nevertheless, female candidates did receive more money from public funds in the 2018 elections compared to 2014. Political parties who gave fewer resources to women in 2014 were among the ones who changed more their behaviour towards equality in 2018. Placebo regressions and robustness checks support these results.