A and Gleisi Hoffmann’s entry into the SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) has a common point: they were movements as macho. Nisia came out in the midst of Lula’s popularity crisis as a measure to increase the chances of health to create an inheritance for the petista’s third term. She gave way to Alexandre Padilha, who was received with caps with the phrase “The Doctor arrived”.
Gleisi, a career policy with full dedication to the PT, had his entry into SRI justified with one: “One thing, companions, that I want to change, establish the relationship with you, so I put this beautiful woman to be minister of institutional relations, is that I no longer want to have distance between you,” said Lula no.
It was a joke directed at other men, made at the expense of the credibility of a woman who spent eight years in the presidency of the PT, four years in the Civil House and had a senator for eight years.
The embarrassing words were compared by critics to the misogynist positions of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The former president had the trajectory marked by lines like “never going to rape you, you do not deserve”, directed to Maria do Rosario (PT-RS) in 2003, or the infamous classification of her daughter as a “weak” in 2017.
The president’s government, but reduces the problem -. But this was not the first time that Lula made public statements seen as macho. During the 2022 presidential campaign, he made repeated references to the fact that his wife, Janja, to be “eyewitness” of his.
He sells himself as a manly figure-remembers the “unbeatable” Bolsonaro-and perpetuates the climate of the ball club in power by making Gleisi a joke for the chamber’s presidents, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), and Davi Alcolumbre (Brazil-AP Union). It seems to forget, or ignore, what words are also a political weapon.
For Gleisi, however, the practice is worth more than rhetoric. “It didn’t have and there is no other leader like President Lula who most empowered women,” he wrote in X, the former Twitter.
In fact, the president created the Ministry of Women in the first month of office. It also signed in March 2023 the resumption of the Woman Living Program without violence and other measures to combat violence against women. In July of the first year of office, the Salary Equality Law was sanctioned.
Still, data on violence against women are alarming, which signals insufficient policies. Brazil broke a record of victimization of women, with 37.5% of interviewees by Datafolha reporting that they were victims of violence in the last 12 months.
A in your government also leaves something to be desired. Of the 38 ministries, 10 are now headed by women. Three of those who were in the past – tratism, sport and health – have male bosses. The president was also criticized when he chose to name Flávio Dino and Cristiano Zanin to the Supreme Court, reducing the number of women in the court after Rosa Weber retired.
The number of women, however, represents undeniable advance compared to the Bolsonaro government, which came to an end with 21 of its 22 men -headed ministries. But it goes far from the ideal parity to realistically represent Brazilian society, made up of 51.2% of women. Black women, more than 60 million and the largest population group in the country, find representation in only three ministers of Lula, Anielle Franco (racial equality), Macaé Evaristo (human rights) and Margareth Menezes (culture).
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