Irina Karamanos Cabinet Term: The Remedy Has Been Worse Than the Disease

As a lawyer interested in matters of public law, I agree that it was a mistake – of beginners – to create a cabinet foreign to the public apparatus, not only because public offices have to be created by law, but also because an eventual change of that cabinet, in particular, would become a matter rather linked to political entertainment than to government affairs.
But, jokes aside, and also apart from Administrative Law, the first question that I consider prudent to ask is: why should the sentimental and non-formal partner of the President of the Republic, exposed to a change of cabinet (pardon the irony) have a formal position in the State Administration? From what follows several other questions: what happens if that informal bond is suspended or broken?, what happens if the President contracts another or other links in the logic of polyamory, for example, that no one without falling into arbitrariness could discriminate? Would we have a collegiate cabinet?
But as the issue of the invented and strange cabinet already had its course with a new retreat of the government, other issues of the greatest relevance arise, if it is about gender equality, because Miss Karamanos has become, from now on, the head of the “Sociocultural Coordination of the Presidency of the Republic”, something like its director.
It is impossible not to link the socio-cultural with the activity carried out, for example, by foundations, in a patriarchal logic of the twentieth century, where women are relegated to this type of social and cultural projects, dispensing them in passing from the need to generate resources, since they come from the generosity of the philanthropy of the companies that, for their part, men administer.
The parallel between the foundations dedicated to the socio-cultural and the analogous Coordination of the Presidency of the Republic, basically accounts for the same patriarchal structure, which relegates women to a secondary and protected level, but which plays a very important role, because it allows them to influence, with its charms, in the rough masculine decisions (I apologize again for the irony).
There are plenty of examples, from the mythical Vito Corleone Foundation, which Michael gives to his daughter Mary to go to the aid of the poor, grant scholarships to artists and finance medical research, or, without resorting to fiction, the MERI Foundation, of the Solari, which gives a generous annuity in millions of dollars to Doña Francisca Cortés Solari, who has no need to generate income, but only to spend it well.
It is easy to proclaim gender equality, but something different is with guitar.

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