The World's Most Powerful Woman

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Brazil President-elect Rousseff pledges gender equality

 

The woman elected to be Brazil's first female president has promised to make gender equality a priority.

 

Dilma Rousseff said she wanted parents to be able to tell their daughters: "Yes, a woman can."

 

Ms Rousseff also promised to fight poverty and maintain continuity with her highly popular predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

 

She won Sunday's presidential run-off election with 56% of the vote to rival Jose Serra's 44%.

 

Ms Rousseff takes office on 1 January next year when President Lula steps down after completing the constitutional limit of two consecutive terms.

Hunger pledge

 

Her election as the country's first female leader was a sign of the democratic progress Brazil had made, Ms Rousseff said in her victory speech in the capital, Brasilia.

 

"So I am here stating my first post-election commitment: to honour Brazilian women so that this fact - unprecedented until now - becomes something normal and can be repeated and expanded in companies, public institutions, and organisations that are representative of our entire society."

 

She continued: "I would like very much today for fathers and mothers of daughters to look in their eyes and tell them: 'Yes, a woman can.'"

 

Ms Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel who was imprisoned for three years in the early 1970s for resisting military rule, promised to protect freedom of expression and worship, and to honour the constitution.

 

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[LayZie G.]

^some would argue that the change mantra is just a fallacy and in fact she is cut from the same cloth as her soon to be predecessor....he hand picked his woman from the little I read, in which case, it remains to be seen just how effective she can be on her own or under his guidance away from preying eyes....will she keep her promise to her women folk?

 

As a woman, I find that all women should be rallying behind her and others like her who really have not only cracked the ceiling (in the case of my beloved hillary Clinton) but have actually reconstructed the ceiling.......women leaders are on the rise(latinas or otherwise), the time has come when you will see women taking over permanently...but much doubt clouds the state of middle east women.....specifically, arab women. GOD BLESS ARAB WOMEN

[Somalina]

[Haatu]

These feminists are the same ones today arguing for the case of the stay-at-home mum in an age of austerity. And you tell us they're fit to lead a nation.

[Chocolate and Honey]

Oo hada ma waxaa i leedahay, you never thought a woman could?We want to run our houses and our countries should we choose to.

[Taleexi]

War dumarka yaan laga waalin. But those who deserve should lead irrespective of their gender. The last Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet, addressed women leadership comprehensively .... it is worth checking.