Zaragoza (EFE) They have come out again to demand, united, the real equality between men and women.
Banner on the balcony of the town hall
The Zaragoza City Council has hung a banner from the balcony of its headquarters in Plaza del Pilar with which it joins the celebration of Women’s Day and with representatives of all municipal groups except Vox, whose position it has prevented since its entry in the consistory the approval of an institutional declaration.
The mayor of Zaragoza, Jorge Azcón, has claimed unity in the fight for real equality, which still has a long way to go, with policies from the administrations, also from the city council of the Aragonese capital, convinced that there are more points of coincidence than those of disunity.
He has also insisted that today is the day to claim real equality between men and women and the banner represents a very majority feeling within the city, almost unanimous, in defense of equality.
However, he has admitted that there is still a long way to go in that real equality and, therefore, the policies to achieve this objective “have to continue to fit in the public administrations”. He has said that the PP-Citizens Government team of the Zaragoza City Council will continue working on them from the unit.
A statute for rural women
For its part, the Government of Aragon has approved the draft Law for the Statute of Rural Women of Aragon, an initiative that seeks to be crucial in combating the discrimination suffered by half of the population in rural areas and the very phenomenon of depopulation.
“We aspire to guarantee effective equality in less populated areas, as a fundamental basis for achieving sustainable development and curbing the problem of depopulation”, assured the Minister of the Presidency, Mayte Pérez. To this end, she added, “a regulatory framework that responds to the needs of women in those areas is essential.”
Promote women’s access to ownership of farms, and influence young women, whose support is essential to combat depopulation in these areas; generating job opportunities that manage to establish them in the territory and facilitate generational change, rebalancing the traditional distribution of tasks, which harms the personal and professional development of women and a specific treatment of sexual harassment and sexist harassment in less populated areas is what that intends to undertake the statute.
The university, involved with equality
The University of Zaragoza has also organized two rallies on the three public campuses, in which they have read the Manifesto of the Network of Gender Equality Units of Spanish Universities for University Excellence (RUIGEU). The university students have summoned higher education to continue working in favor of equality policies for women and men, “necessary to move firmly towards a more egalitarian and just society.”
The university community has also expressed its solidarity with Afghan women, Iranian women and all those who continue to fight defending their fundamental rights and basic public liberties such as their right to education, as well as Ukrainian women, “whose educational process has been cut short by the outbreak of war.
Inequality in the media
The Association and College of Journalists of Aragon, Journalists for Equality and Photojournalists of Aragon have also joined forces this Women’s Day to demand equality in the profession and in society at a rally outside the Auditorium of Zaragoza. To do this, representatives of the three associations have read a manifesto in which they have stressed that machismo is still suffered in work environments, with respect to salaries and in regard to conciliation and care.
Job insecurity, sexual harassment by colleagues, superiors or the sources themselves, the high levels of temporary employment of journalists or the job instability of “freelance” colleagues are other criticisms that have been brought to the table.