The political debate in Congress that yesterday served as a prelude to International Women's Day illustrates
the lack of focus with which the Government faces the necessary fight in favor of equality between women and men
.
The partners of the coalition got involved in mutual reproaches about the law of only
yes is yes
, a rule that has generated more than 700 reductions in sentences for sexual offenders and whose reform has begun to be processed five months later thanks to the support of the PP.
But what was debated yesterday
or was it not only the opportunity to reintroduce a range of progressive penalties in a specific law, but the need to
correct the harmful populism with which the Government legislates about women
.
The banner of this way of doing politics is Minister Irene Montero.
However, the PSOE has actively participated in it, sacrificing the values of feminism in the name of the Trans Law and joining a patrimonialization of women that can turn against it in the demonstrations that will tour the streets today.
The blur is profound because, while the most dogmatic feminism floods the debate with issues of a propaganda nature and generalizes the label "macho" to the point of trivialization -if everything is macho, nothing is-, issues that really affect the lives of women. women are left behind.
Work on equal opportunities in all areas, promote work-life balance, promote female leadership from liberal values -still little present in some spheres of power- and join forces against strongholds of violence
that actually persist are important challenges that must be faced with the spirit of an open, democratic and, yes, feminist society, like the Spanish one.
Spain is
one of the best countries in the world to be born a woman
, and that must be remembered without diminishing the relevance of the objectives that remain to be achieved.
One of them, increasingly visible, is the much higher presence of women among those who relegate their work to be able to take care of a family member.
As we count in our
Foreground
, since 2020 in Spain 1.31 million women have left their jobs to care for sick or disabled children or adults or to meet family obligations, compared to only 379,600 men, which penalizes them in their careers.
The wage gap -which is due to multiple reasons- is also a pending issue: our country ranks 89 out of the 146 countries analyzed by the index
Global Gender Gap
of the World Economic Forum in Davos regarding equal pay for equivalent work.
Sectarianism kindles passions but it doesn't fix problems: it aggravates them.
Faced with this drift, a firm, rational and enthusiastic commitment to real equality of opportunities between women and men must be claimed.
Only their determined involvement makes free societies progress.
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