Fabiana Frayssinet – IPS, 06/18/2011
By appointing women this month to two key ministries, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has nearly met her goal of having 30 percent of women in her cabinet, and is putting women in predominant roles at the Planalto Palace, the seat of government.
Rose Marie Muraro, a writer and pioneer of Brazil’s feminist movement in the 1970s who, like Rousseff herself, inspired many of the women in politics today, is enthusiastic.
“The hard core of power is in the hands of women, and that is very important,” Muraro, declared by law a “National Patron of Feminism” by former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), told IPS.
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