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Women Still a Small Minority in Congress, But Top Job Is Now Th PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Mario Osava - InterPress Service   
Tuesday, 02 November 2010

Article Source: InterPress Service

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) - Although women are a majority of the population, the electorate, and doctoral students in Brazil, have more years of schooling on average than men, and hold almost half of all formal sector jobs, they remain a tiny minority in positions of political power. But South America's giant will now have its first woman president, Dilma Rousseff. She is the sixth woman in Latin America to reach the presidency.

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