Geneva (EFE)
It was advanced by the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez, during her speech in Geneva at the head of the Spanish delegation that presents the IX Periodic Report of Spain and that is submitted for examination before the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
During her speech, Rodríguez explained that in the coming months the Ministry of Equality will present an application in which the household chores carried out by the different members of the family can be counted in order to find out what hours women work at home and how many the men.
In addition, the National Institute of Statistics will present again, after thirteen years, the survey on the use of time.
According to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), women in Spain dedicate more than twice as many hours as men (5 compared to 2 in the case of men).
During his speech, Rodríguez reviewed some of the policies on equality and the prevention of sexist violence that the Government of Spain has implemented, such as the only yes is yes law, the reform of the abortion law, the trans law or the law for the protection of children and adolescents against violence.
In terms of conciliation, the Secretary of State for Equality has referred to the Co-responsible Plan, which has a financing of 200 million euros and contemplates conciliation as a right.
She has highlighted that this plan is a policy of raising awareness against sexist stereotypes that exist in care and has stressed that “if men and States do not become co-responsible for care, we will not close the gender gaps”.
He recalled that the Plan has had “very good successes” such as some campaigns that have been awarded such as ‘The soft man’ or ‘This is not talked about’, on sexual education that “have opened up topics of conversation.”
“We come with the duties identified and some of them done. We are very proud to be able to clearly state that Spain is a feminist country and it is so thanks to its civil society and also thanks to international mandates such as those of this Committee that guide us in the right direction”, underlined Rodríguez.
She has indicated that this new generation of feminist rights must now be consolidated, for which she sees it essential to follow this path of budget commitment.
The Secretary of State for Equality has warned, however, that this is a time when doing feminism “is very difficult.” “There is a reaction to this feminism that we women who defend feminism in public life, in political life and on social networks often pay for in the first person and suffer political violence,” she lamented.