Dilma makes an appeal for greater female participation in politics: "only women can ensure achievements for themselves"
On International Women's Day, the former president argued that women should 'have political representation' and 'seek power'.
247 - On International Women's Day, celebrated this Tuesday (8), former President Dilma Rousseff (PT) participated in a live event promoted by the Lula Institute and made an appeal for more female participation in politics.
According to her, although men can be allies of the feminist movement, "only women can secure achievements for themselves." She stated that the greater participation of women in the political field is the second step following the achievement of women's suffrage in 1932.
The former president highlighted that the exclusion of women happens in all spaces, but it becomes more serious in politics, which is the instrument for societal change. "When a woman leaves the private sphere, which is the space that patriarchy has assigned to her, and goes to the public sphere, she has to be subordinated, she has to be qualitatively more deprived. She is not given the best jobs, nor does she have access to the best jobs. When it comes to politics, this is even more serious, because politics affects all the core elements of a society. It interferes with the processes of transformation that are being guaranteed by a power structure, and that is where misogyny comes in, where there is the systematic attack on women who dare to contradict the norms."
"They are labeled as stupid, lazy, dishonest, too harsh, or hysterical. And misogyny doesn't apply to all women; it's fundamentally a way of repressing and preventing women from expanding their participation. Only women can secure achievements for themselves. Obviously, men can help us, but the leading role belongs to our struggle. She [women] must have political representation, seek power. That's the most delicate part of this struggle. Everywhere this has expanded, where parity has been adopted, the feminist struggle has played a fundamental role. Without women, there's no way," she declared.
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