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03-10-2017, 12:08 AM
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/brazils-president-draws-fire-for-praising-womens-supermarket-skills-on-womens-day/article34246796/
The 76-year-old Mr. Temer was accompanied at the IWD event by his wife, Marcela, 33, a former beauty queen who trained as a lawyer but has been a homemaker since their marriage. Shortly after he became president, she posed for the cover of a national magazine, which featured her with the headline “Beautiful, Modest and At Home”
As Brazilians took to the streets across the country to march for gender equality on International Women’s Day, the country’s President used the occasion to praise women’s ability to spot errors in supermarket prices.
After commending the female ability to keep house and raise children, which he said is “surely” a woman’s responsibility, Michel Temer turned to women’s economic contribution.
Mr. Temer has his defenders. Sheridan Oliveira, a member of Congress from his coalition, spoke up in the lower house in his defence after his speech. “I would like to start by reminding you that a woman’s place is where she wants to be,” she said. “Feminism means even respecting a woman’s right to be a housewife … Since when is the role of the housewife less valued?”
The 76-year-old Mr. Temer was accompanied at the IWD event by his wife, Marcela, 33, a former beauty queen who trained as a lawyer but has been a homemaker since their marriage. Shortly after he became president, she posed for the cover of a national magazine, which featured her with the headline “Beautiful, Modest and At Home”
As Brazilians took to the streets across the country to march for gender equality on International Women’s Day, the country’s President used the occasion to praise women’s ability to spot errors in supermarket prices.
After commending the female ability to keep house and raise children, which he said is “surely” a woman’s responsibility, Michel Temer turned to women’s economic contribution.
Mr. Temer has his defenders. Sheridan Oliveira, a member of Congress from his coalition, spoke up in the lower house in his defence after his speech. “I would like to start by reminding you that a woman’s place is where she wants to be,” she said. “Feminism means even respecting a woman’s right to be a housewife … Since when is the role of the housewife less valued?”