March 8 Working Women's Day. Today more than ever! Regueira
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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not know why in recent years, the commemoration of the Working Women's Day has been replaced by the Women's Day, eliminating the term working and thus losing the vindictive character of a date to be remind us that if unfair conditions suffered by workers joins them being female, the result is much worse. All women work, some we do for others, others seized activities and concerns that require attention to the family and most assuming both responsibilities. But while at work receive a wage activity generally lower than that of our fellow men, for the work within the household is not seen any financial compensation. It is precisely because we all work but not for wages, we must continue to claim the Working Women's Day.
are reasons enough to make visible the inequality that women suffer and claim equal rights en todos los ámbitos, pero debemos tener siempre presente que la principal fuente de desigualdad es la económica y sin retribución salarial estamos indefensas. De ahí la importancia de seguir recordando que el día 8 de Marzo es el Día de la Mujer Trabajadora, ya que sólo recibiendo un salario por nuestro trabajo podemos ser más libres. La independencia económica nos hace más autónomas, nos facilita la toma de decisiones personales y mejora nuestra autoestima. Debemos seguir reivindicando el derecho a acceder al mundo laboral, al reconocimiento económico del trabajo en el hogar y a la igualdad de derechos laborales y económicos.
Todos conocemos la lower rate of female employment, job insecurity, wage inequality against women and measures have been taken are very shy and not being effective enough. The economic crisis we are experiencing all workers, but the data show that inequality is also present there: only 58% of unemployed women have unemployment coverage, compared to 63% of men
In this situation, already endemic, it is add something that looked like we had already passed: the return of women to the domestic sphere. Policies for the reconciliation of personal, family and work encourage shorter working hours and leave work to care for dependents. The measures are not aimed exclusively at women, but we are all aware that while there are no major changes in the values \u200b\u200bof society, who will benefit from these measures are primarily women. Spain is the fourth European country in percentage of women excluded from the labor market to their caring of children and dependents.
These measures speak of reconciliation of family life and threaten the independence of women is not coincidental. Those who hold economic and financial power, away from their responsibilities by the economic crisis have been proposed to continue to benefit and to dismantle the welfare state built under the social-democracy in Europe after the struggle of the workers' movement and which we just enjoyed in Spain. We are witnessing the privatization of public services such as Education or Health, the blind obedience of the governments to the demands of markets and the dismantling of social and labor rights of all workers, such as reducing public spending, reforming pensions and increasingly constrictive labor reforms, which continue to affect to a greater extent women, which means that we continue to lose the most: the reduction of public spending means that not build schools for children and not develop a social network that addresses public health dependent persons qualified professionals. The State does abdicate its responsibilities, privatized services that are profitable and encourages the role of carers in women who proposes derisory financial contributions in exchange of their work and their personal and professional development. The offer seemingly "nice" to work fewer hours to devote to family care entails a serious risk that we re-position within the domestic sphere and lose economic and social independence earned through, without forgetting the impact of this situation on the contribution base for calculating pensions.
If we add the inequality of opportunity to access a skilled jobs, lower wages, part-time work and periods of dedication to caring for the family where there is no salary or quote, we should not be surprising that the average pension for women is very lower than men. Add to this the recent calls for increased contribution period to reach 100% of retirement which includes the pension reform, women who have dedicated themselves to family care for a few years and have not contributed significantly depart affected.
The evolution of all these factors implies that 70% of the beneficiaries of the non-contributory pension for those with disability or over 65 years who have not quoted a minimum of 15 years are women. Much of these pensions are derived from the rights of the husband (widowhood), since many women were excluded from the labor market by social values \u200b\u200band represent the € 339.70 month, and it should live.
Una de cada cuatro mujeres mayores de 65 años está bajo el umbral de la pobreza, 401€ al mes, como consecuencia de unas pensiones contributivas y no contributivas que reflejan la mayor precariedad histórica que las mujeres han sufrido en el trabajo.
¿Debemos o no debemos reivindicar el Día de la Mujer Trabajadora?
Matilde Tenorio Matanzo
Area Women
Izquierda Unida Hoyo de Manzanares
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