Adullt Brazilian Women by

Education

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-04 23:48:06 UTC

Adult women in brazil who are in the middle or high class are more prominent and well accepted. They have more opportunities to go to college according to some studies that show they represent 60 percent of Brazil's college graduates. Women who do not have this opportunities and are poor tend to have children at a young age. Unfortunately those women are paid 30 percent less than men. Also household headed by women account for 27 percent of poor rural people; either because their husbands migrate to other parts of the country in search of work or because they are single parents

Religion

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 00:17:23 UTC

Adult women in brazil are free to choose their religion. The majority of them are Roman Catholics.

Marriage

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 00:46:30 UTC

Marriage for adult women is permitted at the age of 18. The average women married when they are on their mid 20's. If women want to divorce and get married again they must delay their marriage for 270 days. Man can remarry immediately after divorce paper are sign

At Home and During the Day

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 00:47:35 UTC

Women and their husbands perform gender associated roles. Adult women are likely to do the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child rearing. Wealthier women may choose to stay home to raise the children. In themorning women take their children to school and then go to work. If they don't have a job they do their daily chores during the morning while their husband go to work. In the afternoon, when the children are back from school the dinner is ready. Adult women tend to have their dinner in family.

Children

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 01:21:16 UTC

Eighty percent of Brazilian women of childbearing age are using some form of artificial contraception, which has declined the fertility rate and dropped to just 1.9 children per women. Even though abortion is illegal, abortions ranges from 700,000 a year to as high as several million. One of the reason why many women choose to have fewer children is because they want to invest more in each child’s education.

Descrimination

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 02:35:32 UTC

Many adult women are discriminated because of different reasons. For example women who are prostitutes encountered discrimination when seeking free medical care. Also women -specially poor women- often experience worse pay and conditions than men. Some people even avoid hiring women of child bearing age.

Samba Carnival in Brazil

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 02:54:28 UTC

For Adult women this one of the most important even in brazil because not all are chosen to be in the carnival. The ones that do get choose feel a great honor to be in the samba dance; specially because it takes a lot of patience and practice to learn the dances.

Women Changing Brazil

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 03:20:20 UTC

Women supporting each other, sharing stories and opinions about being victims of violence and chauvinism.

shisuedomingez — 2013-12-05 04:05:36 UTC

The table shows how man have a better educations than women.