The 36 who voted against equal pay between men and women – 5/7/2023 – Angela Alonso

It is not news that the New party is old. The vote on equal pay between men and women in the same job just confirmed it. Three New Deputies were against it. Few, but they cover the circumference of the bench. Gilson Marques vocalized it with an argument stamped against corrective measures of inequality. That’s what he starts without clashing head-on: “It’s obvious that we all here want equal rights”. Afterwards, he accuses the reformers of naivety: “This project places a series of responsibilities and fines on the entrepreneur’s shoulders that will inhibit the hiring of women.” In the name of the economy, he sends the rights to the cucuia.

The project, even Carluxo noted on Twitter, is redundant. The Constitution, Article 5, says: “Men and women are equal in rights and obligations”. When one law needs the backing of another, it is because it does not govern practice.

Many applauded her, not all. The 36 opposing parliamentarians (besides 3 abstentions) have the endorsement of those comfortable with the imbalance of power and money. Women occupy 37.4% of the heads and earn 77.7% more than men in the same function. This says the website of the Chamber, home to 513 chairs, in which only 91 female deputies sit. This reality pushed Simone Tebet to raise the issue in the elections and in the assembly of the government.

The gender hierarchy is there and it’s not new, but the former president and troop revived it in prose, verse and votes. The Liberal Party gave 26 ballots against the project, from the uncrowned prince to the 03, including the former chainsaw minister. Liberals like Stuart Mill, champion of women’s suffrage, would be appalled at such liberalism. Far from inconsistency. Also the Democrats dishonored the name in the vote of Kim Kataguiri. From Deltan Dellagnol, laptop sommelier, you wouldn’t expect logic at all.

These contrary men can produce anger, not surprise. More species caused the dozen female deputies eager to fork someone else’s right — after all, their earnings are identical to those of male colleagues. It wasn’t out of ignorance. They all attended college, mostly law school, like Eduardo Cunha’s daughter, Danielle.

Nor was it the expression of an antiquated generation. In the package, there are four ladies, but girls predominate. The Santa Catarina natives Caroline de Toni and Julia Zanatta are in their thirties, which the gaucho Any Ortiz is close to. The youngest of the group is Chris Tonietto, from Rio at the age of 31, active in the pro-life movement, that is, anti-abortion.

Votes that sounded counterintuitive to feminists, not to all female voters. Since the last legislature, Carla Zambelli, Bia Kicis and Adriana Ventura represent those who define themselves as helpers, followers or subordinates to fathers, brothers and husbands. Rosângela Moro (the one from “I live with him”) joined the team. He didn’t even try to voice his own voice, repeated Gilson Marques: “In the way the project stands, it could discourage the hiring of women, causing an opposite effect to the initiative of the proposal”. Neither higher education nor youth carried these women into modernity.

There are many traditionalists, but there are many women who want parity. Maybe that’s why the leader of the good ladies in the electoral campaign recanted after an anti-quota declaration for women. The former first lady, who is nothing like a fool, knows the size of this electorate.

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