Seville, (EFE).- The Andalusian unions UGT and CCOO and the Free and Combative platform of the Student Union met this Wednesday in Seville to demand “real and effective” equality in a world “made for men” and in which workplaces, where women “suffer harassment and violence.”
As in other Andalusian cities, several hundred people have marched from two central points of the capital to meet in front of the doors of the Seville City Council, where they have read a manifesto that calls for an end to sexist violence and discrimination against women .
In statements to journalists, the general secretary of the CCOO of Andalusia, Nuria López, has indicated that this March 8 is a day “that symbolizes the fight that the union organizations have been waging” in the workplace “to open spaces where between equality in companies.
The union leader has maintained that in this world, which “is made for men”, women have managed to “reach important positions in government to continue fighting” for other women and that they want to “share a different society”.
The digital gap, “little visible” inequality
“It is not possible that women continue to be underestimated in our work, we are paid less, we have precarious jobs and we are not recognized and we have to demonstrate three times that we are good,” López pointed out on equality on behalf of one of Andalusian unions.
The general secretary of CCOO-A has also called on the feminist movement to “reconsider and put these nuances on the table to agree on a minimum”, because these “give strength to continue advancing”.
For her part, Carmen Castilla, general secretary of the UGT of Andalusia, has set her sights on an “inconspicuous” inequality such as the “digital divide” between men and women, since jobs “are going to be chosen by algorithms” that they have “male biases”, something that “will harm” women.
Castilla has pointed out that administrations and companies have “to raise awareness and put all the meat on the grill” to “not consent to discrimination in the world of work.”
Laura Gil, from Libres y Combativas, the feminist platform of the Student Union and the Revolutionary Left, has spoken with EFE about the student strike called throughout the country to “continue claiming 8M as a day of struggle and combativeness.”
Exploitation, according to the working class
A fight for which she, along with other colleagues and students, have taken to the streets of Seville to continue “giving voice to the deaths and rapes” that continue to take place; December 2022 became the month with the most sexist murders, with eleven, since they began to be counted in 2003.
With slogans like ‘They keep killing and raping us. Enough is enough!’ or ‘Fed up with sexist and fascist violence’, several hundred young people have begun a journey in Plaza Nueva that ended minutes later in Las Setas in Seville.
With these protests, it is also intended to vindicate the working woman because, as they defend from the platform, “a high-class woman does not suffer the same exploitation as a more humble one.” EFE