Why are women protesting on March 8th?
A lot of people ask the question. Some say that in the 21st century discrimination against women does not exist or is ad ho; they also argue that feminist claims make women think they are weak and need more protection, even when we live in a time when women could not be better.
- On the other hand.
- There are those who defend the demonstrations by saying that much remains to be done in terms of real equality between men and women.
- They talk about the pay gap.
- The femicide.
- The fear that women feel when we walk.
- Alone on the street.
- The invisibility of women in science and many other subjects.
All reviews are valid, but they are only opinions, with no data to support them, so in this article we will try to look at reality with data to analyze whether women really have reason to take to the streets on March 8. .
“Feminism: the principle of equal rights between women and men. ” – Definition of the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Language Spain-
The wage gap between the wages received by a man and a woman for doing the same work is based on two reasons:
“Women in Europe continue to receive on average 16. 3% less than men. The gender pay gap has not narrowed in recent years and is largely due to the fact that women tend to have lower levels of employment and, in lower-wage sectors, receive fewer promotions, further disrupt their careers, and do they do more unpaid jobs?. – Report of the European Commission of 20 November 2017-
When we talk about women in science, we refer to women as educational and historical references to our children. This analysis involves stopping to examine the books of history, science, chemistry, physics, mathematics or literature, in search of some female reference.
The result of this analysis is worrying: women do not exist, except as mere historical companions of male characters; women are no longer just an annex, a support for men in their achievements. In the study of ESO: a genealogy of hidden knowledge, carried out by UNED (National University of Distance Education, Universidad Española), we can see a more complete development of this idea.
Another way to analyze this factor is to try to remember female references in culture or science. Many people know Nelson Mandela, but less Rosa Parks; We know Thomas Edison, but few have heard of Beulah Louise Henry, although both are important in their areas of expertise.
According to a study by the Social Observatory of “La Caixa”, entitled Women are less likely to be hired, prepared by researchers from Pompeu Fabra University, women have a 30% less chance of getting a job interview on an equal footing with men. That is, with the same program, the men came to the interviews and received better proposals for working conditions.
This difference is even more pronounced when there are children, because according to this study, a woman with children has a 35. 9% less chance of being called to a job interview than a man in the same condition, it is because we are the ones who care for the family and the man simply “helps” is not responsible for the care.
But that’s not all. According to a study by the Swedish population, is the gender composition of couples important for the division of postpartum work?(Does the gender composition of couples influence the division of postpartum work ?, in free translation), the pay gap that occurs with motherhood in lesbian couples, one of whom was a biological mother, disappears at age 5, which is not the case with same-sex couples.
The study notes that this difference disappears in same-sex couples due to the equitable distribution of paternity between the two partners.
Last but not least, we analyze violence by men against women, gender-based violence takes its name from the fact that victims remain women, and the fact occurs simply because they are women. In Spain, since 2003, when the murder count began as a result of this type of violence, more than 800 women have died.
According to an article entitled Violence against Women: A New Structural Vision, Violence against Women is a strategy to maintain patriarchal power and a way to prevent women from leaving the place of inequality they traditionally occupy, so it is comparatively more legitimized than violence against men, and this legitimacy is expressed in the legal and criminal codes , which are a crystallization of the values of the society in which they are formulated.
After reading all this, do you think we don’t have enough reason to vote for feminism on March 8?What’s your opinion on that?