President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) criticized this Saturday (5) during the BRICS BUSINESS FORUM, Machismo in the field of business, a delicate theme, as the emerging group has been including nations that have been widely restricted nations that restrict women’s rightslike Iran and Saudi Arabia and, to a lesser extent, Egypt and United Arab Emirates.
“The place you want in political, business and anything you want to do depends solely and exclusively on your boldness. Don’t expect us men to be the authors of your achievements,” Lula said, in a speech in Rio’s port zone. “We have only 16% of women in the business world. It is very little, it means that machismo takes over businessmen and who knows the economy.”
Lula stated that female participation is a “extraordinary news” in Bricswith the creation of Group of businesswomen.
A clear sign of the different social participation of women among the BRICS countries is that Lula quoted representatives of Women’s Business Alliances grouping, including businesswomen of Brazil, South Africa, Russia, China, Egypt, United Arab Emirates e Indonesia.
One of the fears of diplomats that coordinate Brazilian participation in BRICS was that the discussion of gender issues was affected in the group, from the inclusion of member countries with government regimes based on religious laws.
The term “gender” is no longer quoted in the final statement of 2024 compared to the 2023 version, although both address female participation.
Lula also confirmed a trip to Malaysiawith probable date of October 26, for Asean’s second annual summit meeting. The president said he accepted the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Bin Ibrahimpresent in the forum.
He also intends to visit the Indonesiaon the same trip, in order to discuss the preservation of tropical forests, with a view to COP-30. One of the main results in Brazil should be the obtaining of resources for the Background Tropical Forests Foreverwhich aims to reach $ 4 billion annually in public and private resources.
This Lula tour of Asia was already being discussed behind the scenes of the government, as a strategic movement in search of alternative business partners, in the midst of the tariff war, in order to escape the global influence and economic dependence of China and the United States.
The country wants to deepen ties with Asean, an economic block with which it already has a commercial flow of $ 37 billion, just less than Mercosur, but with a surplus of US $ 15 billion, based mainly on commodities and agricultural products.
The President urged Brazilian entrepreneurs to organize a business mission to Kuala Lumpur. “Who wants to sell, go, who wants to buy, go. If he is waiting for things not happens,” said Lula.
