Brazil

Elaine Davidson is the "Most Pierced Woman" according to the Guinness World Records and she’s Brazilian!! Check her out on wikipedia to see just how many piercings she has….you won’t believe it! I'm not at all saying that this is a common thing to do among Brazilian women, i just thought it was fascinating.  

Population: 201,103,330

Capital: Brasília

Language: Portuguese

Religion: Roman Catholic 73.6% (nominally)

Life Expectancy: 72.26 years

GDP per Capita: $10,900

• 30% of adult women who say they have experienced physical abuse by a male partner or intimate

• 72% of murdered women were killed by a relative of friend

• Abortion is illegal or only done to save women’s life

• 217 women die each week from breast cancer

• Has a total of 6 Miss Universe winners, from 1952-2010, which is one of the highest in the world.

• Is a source country for sex trafficking. In fact, “Brazil has one of the worst child prostitution problems in the world and is one of the favored destinations of sex tourists from Europe and the United States” LINK.

If you’re interested here is an overview of what women in Brazil have gone through throughout history. It’s very straight forward and full of interesting facts; Womens history in Brazil

Now moving on to something a little different, Ms. Rouseff!

Dilma Vana Rousseff is the 36th and current President of Brazil. She is the first woman and economist to hold office in the country, in 2005 she was also the first woman to become Chief of Staff of Brazil. She became a socialist in her youth and "joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured and jailed between 1970 and 1972 and reportedly tortured." She help found the Democratic Labor Party in Rio Grande do Sul state. She was included in the Forbes' list of the most powerful people in the world, at the 16th position. You can read all about her here.

"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday on a popular television program that she has opened the way for every girl in the country who dreams of being president."

"What is most important about my being president is that now all girls can aspire be president and it will be seen as completely normal in Brazil that a woman becomes president"

"Rousseff said that her taking office as president represents the breaking of a paradigm and blamed the macho mentality for spreading an image of her as a "tough" woman." "Did you ever see a man who became leader of the country being called 'tough?'" the president asked, adding that "women are expected to be fragile, at least the image people have is that women are fragile...and when a woman takes a position of leadership, of authority, she's seen as stepping outside her proper role."

"She said that since poverty in Brazil is worst among women and children, she will adapt government programs for combating destitution to make them favor women more, especially single parents"

Here is the link to the article that the above quotes are from

Wow! What a role model for girls and women of Brazil and of the world! She's a women who has been through a lot and has achieved a lot. If your interested there is lots of information and biographies on her out there, go ahead and research it! Its so neat to see everything that she has done. She hasn't let the fact that she is a women hold her back! I'm am positive it hasn't been easy for her but now she's inspiring women all over the country, how exciting!



Dilma Rousseff (Kinda opposite of Elaine Davidson eh?)
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