Pamplona (EFE).- Institutions, social agents and feminist groups have commemorated this Women’s Day, calling for equal policies between men and women in all areas to overcome gender gaps and rejecting socially imposed stereotypes of female beauty.
Women with disabilities denounce the exclusion they suffer
In a rally in Plaza del Castillo, women with disabilities have denounced the social “exclusion” that they still suffer despite the advances made in recent years in terms of care, rights and equality.
Convened by the Committee of Representative Entities of Persons with Disabilities of Navarra (CERMIN), they have gathered to demand inclusive feminism because even today “we are not included in society like other women”.
The concentration has been headed by a banner with the slogan “Feminism will be inclusive or it will not be” and in the same part of the attendees have carried signs with phrases such as “my disability does not limit me, your machismo does”, “do not limit my opinion” or “we are real, we want to be the same”.
“The rules are already written but now we need them to be complied with”, they stated in the statement read, in which they demand to be taken into account in terms of care, those who can provide and need it, at which point they have recalled that the recovery, transformation and resilience plan advocates for the autonomy of people with disabilities.
They have also defended support in the community to deinstitutionalize people with disabilities, for which they have commented on the importance of the figure of the personal assistant, as well as having longer permits and for the care of people in a situation of dependency when it comes to of a child with a disability.
Other CERMIN demands include financial aid for the care of dependent children and to facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life, “so that we can take care of our daughters and sons while we can work.”
“If this is not possible, women with disabilities will be increasingly poorer and more excluded from society. Especially women who want to be mothers ”, they have assured.
UGT and CCOO request that the laws be provided with resources
For their part, the UGT and CCOO unions have come together and have called for the involvement of political parties to “provide resources” for the laws that are approved and thus be able to combat gender gaps and inequality in a real way.
The concentration was held in front of the headquarters of both unions led by their leaders, including the general secretaries Jesús Santos (UGT) and Chechu Rodríguez (CCOO).
Both centrals have denounced the labor and salary gap suffered by women in Navarra and in this regard have stressed that 60% of women receive the SMI and that their salaries are also 7,000 euros a year lower than those of men, for which have questioned that in these circumstances only 40% of the mandatory equality plans in companies have been signed.
In this sense, Marisol Vicente, UGT Secretary for Union, Social and Equality Policy, has indicated that progress has been made in equality “but not to the extent that we would have liked” and has stressed that a higher unemployment rate persists among women and They support poorer quality employment, with 65% of part-time contracts and Navarra “continues to be the community with the second largest wage gap.”
Navarra, at the head of the gap
After indicating that women make up more than 50% of the population, he has pointed out that equality is not only “a matter of justice but a real need, a fundamental pillar for economic recovery”, Vicente has denounced to end the “scourge of sexist violence, which often kills us and always denigrates us as women”.
Eva Mier, CCOO Secretary for Women and Equality, has pointed out that “in Navarra we are at the head of the gap”, in terms of salary, where to eliminate it women should earn 30% more, which has led her to question the underrepresentation of women in industry, with better working conditions and salaries, and concentration in the service sector, with lower salaries and part-time shifts.
Some factors to which he has added the fact that the burden of care continues to fall “mostly on our shoulders since all this has an impact on pensions, while he has reminded women who suffer the consequences of wars, rapes and violence just for being a woman
For the CCOO and UGT, it is also a priority to invest in equality education to achieve a culture free of stereotypes and macho prejudices and therefore that the gender perspective enters schools at the same time that segregation by sex in the classrooms comes out.
“Co-responsibility, equity, autonomy and freedom are values that must be present in the education of future generations,” they said in a joint statement read during the concentration.
Pamplona rejects female “stereotypes of beauty”
In addition, a concentration called by the Pamplona City Council in the city’s town hall square has rejected the female “beauty stereotypes” that harm the physical and mental health, especially of younger people.
Councilors from all political groups have participated in the silent rally, headed by Mayor Enrique Maya and accompanied by citizens of the Navarrese capital who have gathered in the town hall square to show their rejection of the prevailing models of feminine beauty in society. .
This act ended with the reading of the 8M manifesto “We are diverse, now free”, approved as an institutional declaration by the Citizen Affairs Commission of the Pamplona City Council at the proposal of the Network of Equality Techniques of Navarra.
In this manifesto, the consistory has committed to “promote public policies at the local level that promote the physical, emotional and relational health of women, raise awareness about gender stereotypes and generate critical reflections towards the hegemonic model of beauty and make visible and give value to the diversity of women”.
“Utopian” beauty stereotypes
The Councilor for Equality of the Pamplona City Council, María Gracia Barberena, has told the media that on March 8 “we are taking the opportunity to demand visibility and reflection on those beauty stereotypes that prevail in female models and that are so damaged doing in the health, both physical and mental especially of the youngest people”.
On social networks, the councilwoman said, these beauty stereotypes “are actually quite utopian, those almost unattainable bodies are being seen to cause both eating and, above all, mental disorders in young people.”
“It seemed to us that it was a good day to reflect on everything about those models of beauty and claim all the bodies of diverse women,” he stressed.
On the occasion of Women’s Day, tonight the facade of the Town Hall will be illuminated in purple to claim the right to equality and non-discrimination based on gender.
Care workers ask for their work to be recognized
Workers in the care sector have also claimed this Wednesday that their work be recognized by improving working conditions.
Convened by the LAB union, they have gathered in front of the Parliament of Navarra in the framework of 8-M, where the union’s spokesperson, Berta García, has denounced “the unsustainable care situation that currently exists and is based on the fact that women let us sustain it based on precariousness and lack of recognition”.
“During the pandemic, the need for care for life to continue became evident, but instead of giving it the value and visibility it deserves, public institutions insist on ruling over capitalist logic, turning care into a business, making companies get rich and betting on privatization”, he added.
For all these reasons, the workers demand from the Parliament of Navarra “an acknowledgment of the patriarchal debt to the caregivers, that the privatization of care services be prohibited, that those that are privatized be published and that the conditions of the workers of the home through a collective agreement and to bet on the unblocking of the collective agreements of feminized sectors such as residences, school canteens, nursery schools, family care centers in the Egüés Valley”.
The workers have finished the act putting aprons, brooms and mops to the statues of Paseo de Sarasate.