In 2010, Dilma Rousseff was the first woman to be elected President in Brazil.
The authors examine the ways Rousseff exercised dominant autho.
In Women\'s Empowerment and DisEmpowerment in Brazil, dos Santos and Jalalzai examine Rousseff\'s presidency and what it means for a woman to hold (and lose) the country\'s highest power.
Her popularity and controversy both energized and polarized the country.
She was re-elected in 2014 before being impeached in 2016 for breaking budget laws.
In 2010, Dilma Rousseff was the first woman to be elected President in Brazil