In 1956 the presidential election of Kubitschek and his promise of "fifty years of progress in five" escalated the pace of industrialization in Brazil. The female labor force continued to change as the Brazilian economy evolved. During this time female workers began moving out of agriculture and into "female" occupations in the service and commerce sectors of the economy, such as primary school teachers, office worker, and sales clerk. The recruitment was primarily of young, single, more educated women. Older, married women, on the other hand clustered in female-dominated "refuge" jobs such as seamstresses, and domestic workers. Only about one-fourth of working women were paid employees, while more than half report domestic work as their occupation. In an unoffical statistics many women listed as "housewife" or "student" may actually be a disguise for unemployment as there were no jobs for them. (Nash. Safa 1986)
Women not only made up a small portion of Brazil's work force but there was also a steadily increasing gap between wages of male workers and female workers. Due to inflation …show more content…
Her only way of survival for both her and her children was by collected paper, rags, and bottles from the street and selling them to a junk dealer. Carolina's diary detailing the struggles of each day to secure money to buy food and care for her children was discovered and published by Auda'lio Dantas, a reporter of a magazine in Sa'o Paulo. Her voice was heard and echoed through Brazil, selling 90,000 copies in less than six months. Carolina's diary spelled out in concrete images of how the inflation affected the cost of living. "They spend in elections and afterwards raise everything. It is the people who pay the election expense!" said
Women not only made up a small portion of Brazil's work force but there was also a steadily increasing gap between wages of male workers and female workers. Due to inflation …show more content…
Her only way of survival for both her and her children was by collected paper, rags, and bottles from the street and selling them to a junk dealer. Carolina's diary detailing the struggles of each day to secure money to buy food and care for her children was discovered and published by Auda'lio Dantas, a reporter of a magazine in Sa'o Paulo. Her voice was heard and echoed through Brazil, selling 90,000 copies in less than six months. Carolina's diary spelled out in concrete images of how the inflation affected the cost of living. "They spend in elections and afterwards raise everything. It is the people who pay the election expense!" said