Colonisation of Brazil
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Colonisation of Brazil
Brazil is the only Latin American nation that derives its language and culture from Portugal. The native inhabitants of Brazil are mostly Nomadic Tupi-Guarani also know to western societies as native Indians. Brazil was claimed and colonized by Portugal in the 1500s, which saw the beginning of a social structure change with in native communities with domestic duties introduced and enforced. A consequence of colonisation in Brazil was that the Portuguese male colonist started to reproduce with the Native females this created a new generation of mixed raced people. With the majority of the population in Brazil being of this mixed race breed the Portuguese decided to enter the sugar trade industry and turn a profit by using the mix race offspring as slave labour in the fields and domestic servants in colonist households. Both female and male slaves were traded to Spanish and Portugal settlers of the new world, those natives of mixed race that did not comply with slavery were executed which resulted in almost 2000 native tribes being wiped out.
Evolution of Womens rights
Since the aforementioned time of colonisation, Brazil has become one of the fastest growing economies in the third world, and has seen the end of the many decades of dictatorship. Brazil has constructed polices in the aim of closing the gap between the wealthy and the poor who make up the Majority of Brazils population. Unfortunately, a significant amount of the current industrial expansion has not altered the lives of woman in Brazil that live on the margins of society and considered socially inferior to men as a result of centuries of Slavery and colonisation. Brazilian women receive the same legal rights and duties as men; there is a cabinet-level office for Womens Affairs that has responsibility to ensure the legal rights of women. The law prohibits the discrimination based on gender such as wage disputes. (This is expressed in the 5th article of Brazils 1988 Constitution). 1979 saw the election of the first woman into the senate. In 1994 women became were able to run as candidates for vice presidency. According to the World Economic Forum Brazil has eradicated gender differences in the areas of education and health treatment, a particularly significant achievement give that prior to this women were largely regulated in the domestic service industry where they worked in areas such as sewing factories, as nannies and as maids. By the 1940s nearly 84% (of British enterprise in Brazil, Marschell Eakin) woman worked in Domestic service positions. Women with disputes now have access to a cabinet level of office, which is entrusted with the responsibility of protecting their legal rights. An example of where legislation protects equality and prevents discrimination often utilized by women in the process of wage disputes (see article 5, 1988 constitution of Brazil).
Present day domestic Service
The conditions faced by female domestic workers have varied considerably throughout history in Brazil, continue to do so in Brazilian Society. In the course of twentieth-century movements for labour rights world wide, womens rights, domestic immigrant rights and work conditions have become