Sexism is not a joke: how humor is used to demoralize women in politics
المصدر: Harvard Political Review
Despite being featured in 2011 and 2012 by Forbes as the third most powerful woman in the world, former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had her competence, capacity, and skills constantly challenged and undermined back home. In one of many examples, a magazine cover portrays the former president as an unstable, crazy, and hysterical woman unable to run the country. The cover headline, translated from Portuguese, reads: “The President’s nervous outbursts.”
Click here to read the full article published by Harvard Political Review on 7 August 2023.
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