Dilma Rousseff candidacy. Rousseff won the Presidency by an approximate margin of 56% to 44%, and took office on 1 January 2011, as the first woman president of the country. She became the third female head of government ever in the history of Brazil, and the first "de jure" female head of state since the death of Maria I, Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in 1816. During her presidential campaign, Rousseff underwent a makeover, replacing glasses with contact lenses, undergoing plastic surgery and adopting a different hairstyle. On 26 October 2014, Rousseff was re-elected president of
Dilma Rousseff propaganda for sexual options". In 2014, during the presidential elections, President Dilma Rousseff supported the criminalization of homophobia. Since 25 May 2012, Rousseff's government faced a number of strikes by public employees, especially university professors. Rousseff was inflexible, and the strike left millions of students without classes for months. According to O Globo, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, she believes private sector jobs should be prioritized by her government's policies. Rousseff was ranked fourth in "Forbes"' 2014 list of the most powerful women in the world, and the second most powerful in 2013. In 2015 she was the 7th, and