Unfinished Revolution, What Didn't Change after 25 April
No. 75 FEBRUARY 2024
What didn't change after 25 April? Despite all the achievements of five decades of democracy, there are characteristics of Portuguese society that have remained almost unchanged. This book investigates two of them: elitism in politics and machismo in justice.
Recruitment into the ruling political class includes very few people who are not university graduates or who are affected by poverty, and there is almost no mobility from local power to national power. In the judicial system, the entry of women into the judiciary and the move to more progressive laws did not change a pattern of low levels of convictions for sex crimes, committed mainly against women.
Using facts and testimonies, this is the portrait of a Portugal where the revolution for equality is still unfinished.
What didn't change after 25 April? Despite all the achievements of five decades of democracy, there are characteristics of Portuguese society that have remained almost unchanged. This book investigates two of them: elitism in politics and machismo in justice.
Recruitment into the ruling political class includes very few people who are not university graduates or who are affected by poverty, and there is almost no mobility from local power to national power. In the judicial system, the entry of women into the judiciary and the move to more progressive laws did not change a pattern of low levels of convictions for sex crimes, committed mainly against women.
Using facts and testimonies, this is the portrait of a Portugal where the revolution for equality is still unfinished.
More details
Dimensions
6 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9153-46-2