Last Tuesday, March 8, was held on International Women's Day Workers. For 100 years, remembers that day in which 140 workers, mostly immigrants, were burned to death by fire in the Triangle, the city of New York. The women had locked up, demanding decent working conditions and the pattern caused the fire. This event had a significant impact on the labor laws of the United States. In the current year's commemoration coincides with the worst economic crisis since the thirties. "A crisis that, in his long whiplash," writes Schwartz on Public-Marco, begins to hit particularly hard the female population. In the uncertain economic environment that opens, in which Europe plays the future of the welfare state, no longer enough to combat pay discrimination against women, which unfortunately continues to exist and must be fought relentlessly, but it is urgent to issue a firm commitment by the massive incorporation of women into the workforce. This requires, among other things, review the organization of work, develop a powerful network of nurseries and more effectively implement the Law Unit, so that procreation or family care need not stop thousands of women to Besides this professional ... Unfortunately, much of the world, where the woman just has no rights, this debate will sound metaphysics. "
But despite the time it was recognized for working women, the senior management of companies, associations, unions, are occupied mostly by men are not equal opportunities for women. True that today they enter English universities and up to 60 percent of university students are female, but this proportion disappears when leadership roles. Women still earning lower wages than the man for whom is reserved the best qualified positions. Discrimination by female status is constant. Women working in Madrid are the ones that suffer the greatest wage gap compared to men. According to "Compensation labor by gender" by the collective expertise of the Treasury (Gestha), the men charged in Madrid almost 8,000 euros more than women, just 7,965 euros. And the annual average pay of men in Spain stands at 21,433 euros, while the women do not exceed 16,110 euros. Wage gap is due to factors such as the later incorporation of women into the labor market, but mainly, in Spain, women "are still penalized in their careers to be mothers and the resistance of companies promoting them to positions of responsibility. " After Madrid, Asturias stands as the second community with the largest wage gap, where a woman takes on average 6,599 euros less than a man, Cantabria and Catalonia in 6233 with 6,181 euros. At the opposite extreme lie Canary Islands and Extremadura, where women earn, respectively, 3,044 euros and 3,493 euros less than men. The results of this report show that the wage gap between men and women has widened with respect to official data from 2008. Spain, despite the boost to equality policies given by the first government of Zapatero, is still far from the European average, where the wage gap is 17.5%.
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According Almudena, secretary of the UGT, unemployment is higher among women (20.79%) than men (19.95%) because many of them expressed their willingness to work after that the head of the family has lost their job as more young women who want to work. Fontana ensures that unemployment increased more among young women than among men, although 59% of graduates are women. It adds that "in general, young workers living on unemployment and dramatically in recent months, are young women who are in a worse situation." And he notes that 45% of those who accept a part-time work they do "because there is another full-time." Fontana regrets that the current economic difficulties, "is a crisis that has become dull the situation that the women lived prior to this situation" and that, despite the onset of economic problems, job loss occurred in sectors "masculine", such as construction, in recent months "has been a shift to areas occupied by women. When this cycle is over, will still persisted the crisis facing women, while living in good economic situations, because job opportunities are not distributed equally among men and women. " And said that "betting for equality should not be detrimental to the welfare."
The English Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, Secretary U.S. State, Hillary Clinton.
Interestingly, international agencies have no women in senior positions. Neither the UN nor NATO, neither the IMF nor the World Bank have had a woman in the highest offices. Even the EU, comprises 27 member states. The list of presidents, general secretaries addresses or are full of men. Only four women representing the countries members of NATO: a Slovak and one Icelandic, one German and Croatian. Three women in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, the United States and Denmark. Seventy-five people have gone through the presidency of the UN General Assembly. And only three of them were women, Vijaya Lakshmi in 1953, Angie E. Brooks in 1969, Sheikha Haya Rashed in 2006. In 2004, he entered the Social Economic Council's first woman president, the Finnish Marjatta Rasi. The second and last, the Luxembourg Sylvie Lucas, became president in 2009. Since its inception, only they were able to occupy the highest office. Of the fifteen people who serve as judges in the ICJ, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, only two are women: China's Xue and U.S. Hanquin Joan E. Donoghue. However, the International Criminal Court, headed by a man with eleven women as judges and eight judges.
Michele Bachelett, executive director of UN Women, at the launch of the agency.
The UN has, just from last July, a woman as executive director, Chile's Michelle Bachelet, who chairs one of the principal organs: UN Women, the entity for Gender Equality and Empower Women . As the World Bank, not one woman has held the highest office of the institution. Neither the International Monetary Fund. By contrast, the World Health Organization and UNESCO have females in executive positions.
Three out of ten English grandmothers spend most of their time caring for their grandchildren. This allows her daughters to continue working. As recognized by the Equality ministry in a report, the economic value of this work is 0.8% of GDP and 12% of spending on retirement and widowhood. But these women do not want their care be seen as an obligation: "If women today have been studied and work is due to the major said, 'My history is not repeated." And that does not happen, now care for their grandchildren. But when we do not care, we feel guilty. We take care of, but not as a duty. We must free ourselves of guilt, "said Mariqueta Vazquez, President of the Association of Women for a Healthy Aging. They are precisely those who bear the greatest care dependent people, as highlighted by Luis Martin Pinder, vice president of the State Council of Higher They are widowed more: 44.5% lost her husband, while there is only a 12, 2% of widowers over 65 years. "They live longer, but they have better conditions of life are more likely to live in a state of dependence, with less revenue."
vlencianas Women say "Enough!" Camps.
In Valencia, the seven women with the platform "Les Camps prou gifts diem" (The women say enough to Camps) choose a slogan and an image well known to characterize their movement. The motto is "We can do it" (we do). The image is of a woman rolled up with a face that looks much indignation as he makes the viewer the finger. Women who use the word movement "roll up" to define its purpose and its objectives. "Roll up our sleeves-resume writer Rosa Roig, which is well and there is much to do." And "you have to do is show a strong disagreement with the policy of Francisco Camps, president of Valencia. There are a total of 300 women who are against the "situation emergency "in the Valencian Country. The platform-specific complaints are many: the semi-privatization of Health, the manipulation of Channel 9, the "contempt" of Valencia in schools or suspected corruption that splashes to the regional leadership of the PP, including their own Camps. On the platform there are actresses, journalists, writers, teachers or members, but the manifest submitted not forget to give visibility to the private side of the undersigned, remembering that they are also "daughters, mothers, grandmothers and granddaughters." Its aim is to create a transversal movement that is above ideologies. This is to overcome the extreme division who has left Valencia, to take action "through networking, cooperative and not competitive, which is how women have worked for millennia."
The "Heroines" conquer the Tyssen.
And, coinciding with International Women's Day, Thyssen Museum and the Fundación Caja Madrid together about 120 works from all periods, whose protagonists are women "independent and strong." He explains Guillermo Solana, chief curator of the Thyssen Museum has prepared the exhibition "Heroines", open until 5 June. They are works of art in which the Women play an active role, divided into sculptures and paintings. Dating from the Renaissance onwards, although most belong to the contemporary age. There are mythological figures such as Artemis, Iphigenia and Medea; warriors like Joan of Arc, mystical and Santa Teresa and Santa Eulalia, and artists such as Sappho, Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo. All of them exert their power over others and have been portrayed by various artists such as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya ... Although they were also portrayed by women like Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and Marina Abramovic.
hunters are women, athletes, warriors, Amazons, magicians and, of course, great painters showing its strength and power. "The aim of this exhibition," says Guillermo Solana, is to show images of women than the female model 'accommodating', 'maternal' or 'seductive' that appears in most of the performing arts. It is an irreverent and exciting exhibition for the way in which the works are mixed, which cause the viewer get a spark of understanding. " In 'Heroines', the female figure is the absolute protagonist. A strong, independent, and successful fighter, who leaves the more than usual erotic and maternal role which often represents femininity art. Works ranging from Greek mythology to the vision of contemporary feminist artists. The exhibition is organized chronologically, but grouped by theme: loneliness, peasant martyrs, Amazon ... 11 rooms to enjoy the independence and courage of women throughout history. Until May 4, specialists in the field give a course on monographic exhibition in the very hall of the museum. Sessions are every Wednesday at 17.30. In addition, on Saturdays at 12.00 there is a cycle of lectures by Guillermo Solana on 'Women in the Thyssen modern' and, in cooperation with "Women Create" two concerts of jazz, Sidsel Endresen and Marilyn Mazur.
"For centuries the role of women as creative was marginal," writes Michael Lorenci. Occupied, by contrast, a role as an artistic object and paradigm of motherhood and the object of male desire. In the last century, things changed. The creative woman broke into the world of art with an unusual and innovative power. The passage from one to another situation, the submission to erotic and maternal archetype set by the centuries to the recent assault of women, the active site of creation took the shows 'Heroines', another brilliant result of a partnership between Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid. Both have raised a 'irreverent and provocative' city of women through over a hundred pieces in an interesting beaten by half a millennium of history of art in which the old masters (Goya. Tintoretto) and modernity (Degas, Rodin ) contrast with the work of the creators of yesterday and today. The passive role of women as objects women jumped into active, independent, challenging, inspirational, creative, domineering, triumphantly entering a forbidden area for centuries. Strong female characters and very different for women seducing or complacent, expired or enslaved, painted and sculpted for centuries. " Guillermo Solana resume: "They are the ideal alternative images of women conformist mother and object of erotic desire. Something they have never addressed the historical museums. This is to bring the viewer comfortable and boring scope of the convention: to cause a spark of understanding and have cast doubt on their beliefs and to distance itself from a dominant stereotype for centuries. "
Any self-respecting heroine who is comfortable in her body, as in the sculptures of voluptuous women of Gaston Lachaise.
In Greek mythology we pass to the subversive images of contemporary feminist artists, major figures of Christianity to anonymous readers of the press. We explore scenarios and vocations of the heroines: the iconography of the loneliness of women imprisoned at home, work, war, magic, drunkenness, sport, religion, reading and painting. "It is a compilation of images of women without spine-Solana warns. We look for active women, independent strong in a broad sense. " No chronological order, each chapter of the sample are juxtaposed works from different periods, languages \u200b\u200band genres to reflect on what changes and what remains through those differences. In each of the six sections of one or more voices of great women artists respond to images created by his illustrious male counterparts.
The goal of "Heroines," said Solana, is to show images of women than the female model "complacent", "maternal" or "seductive" in the most artistic.
"Heroines" ranges from Greek mythology more subversive images of contemporary feminist artists. It shows a strong women, active, independent, far from dominating or challenging submissive and passive models posed by seductive women or complacent, expired or enslaved. Gather a complete range of female characters of different kinds and times: from the Greek goddesses Artemis and Athena, the Bacchae barred to men, furious and wild maenads, the rebellious heroine Atalanta, one of the best jackets and faster women the world, or the magicians Circe and Medea. Without forgetting the virgins and martyrs Joan of Arc, who was defeated in many battles the British army, and St. Catherine of Alexandria, can be converted with the philosophical debate to 50 wise pagan, or Santa Eulalia and Santa Teresa.
Explosions at a nuclear plant in Japan.
(While we made this site aimed at women, a wave of death and destruction raging in Japan. A destructive earthquake of magnitude 8.9, the highest recorded so far in this country and the fourth largest in intensity on record, shakes its northeastern coast, causing a tsunami with waves up to ten meters razed entire villages, leaving thousands dead, could be as many as 88,000 missing, and as many injured. The earthquake, a thousand times stronger than that of Haiti, 7 degrees, it releases energy equivalent to 200 million tons TNT. The greater danger than the tsunami, are the fires in nuclear power plants to shut down the cooling systems. Japanese media reported an explosion at the nuclear plant in Fukushima. The Government ordered to evacuate the entire population within 20 miles. Eleven nuclear reactors paralyze their activity and the prime minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, orders the nuclear alert, while the government ensures that no radiation leaks have been detected in or near nuclear plants. But in a reactor, the level of radioactivity reached a thousand times normal).
But back to today's discussion, the woman, now covered with the eyes of humor. After the irony Derkaou color, smile with the ingenuity of JRMora and Forges, black and white.
Manel Fontdevila
This draws the Working Women's Day, The 110 mph, Corruption in Andalusia, the PP's manifesto corruption and Gaddafi's reaction against Zapatero telephone plant.
Vergara Territory states: Then and Now, On the ring, climbing prices, Feedback and News of reach.
Finally, Pepe surprises us with the pending threat, indispensable Quality, Clean Slate, we take for hostages and the same is reached, but more tranquil.
ended up with four videos. The first are the words reported on Tuesday the cartoonist Forges, opened the presentation on his book The Forrenta Years in Comedy Factory (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid)
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other three are on the last International Women's Day: a singer like Miguel Bose, of such a policy Elena Valenciano and a documentary tribute to all those women who fought and still fight for the same equal rights and opportunities.
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