The first vice president of the government, Carmen Calvo, has vindicated this Friday the advances made by the feminist struggle, aware of the terrain that still remains to be conquered. Calvo has closed the conference ‘Con Voz de Mujer’ organized by Cadena SER in Santiago. It considers that initiatives such as this forum contribute to promoting equality between men and women.
Calvo has defended the necessary role that feminism plays in today’s society, and above all, in the face of the threat to democracy posed by the rise of far-right movements. In that sense, he has said that the advance of equality policies must be a “general interest”, so they cannot be “discussed”, despite the fact that “some try”.
The vice president has insisted on a telematic intervention in which equality policies “are no longer an optional section” in governments, but have become the “great transformative struggle anywhere on the planet”.
A difficult, sometimes tortuous path for women, who in Galicia have magnificent references. He has cited Rosalía de Castro, Emilio Pardo Bazán and Concepción Arenal, “a triad of women to understand feminism and the situation of women in our country, is a very powerful triad of Spanish genealogy, to see ourselves in it“.
She has held a forum like this one that serves to give a voice to all women at a time when “we have to express ourselves and listen to each other”, he said, so that “men listen to us and that we are never interpreted again.” In any case, the Vice President of the Government has considered that the “Equality policies have ideological pedigree”, because “not all the ideological lines that compete (electorally) in democracy” make the same commitment to equality and feminism.
With his speech, he closed the conference organized by Radio Galicia Cadena SER to analyze the situation of women in today’s society. The vice president has been preceded in speaking by the mayor of Santiago, Xosé Sánchez Bugallo, which has encouraged society to continue making an effort to achieve equality between men and women, “more necessary in a crisis such as the one caused by this pandemic.”
The forum has been moderated by the journalist Macarena Berlin and has had two presentations, one by the writer Naked Freire, and another given by the prosecutor specialized in gender violence, Pilar Fernandez.
In addition, during a talk between women who have worked their way into professions hitherto occupied by men, the lieutenant colonel of the land army, Cristina Larriba, has shared her experience with two FP students of bodywork and metal constructions, and the dean of the USC’s Faculty of Mathematics, Elena Vazquez Cendon.
There has also been a colloquium on the situation of women in today’s society and micromachisms, in which the USC professor and secretary of the university’s center for feminist studies, Jorge Marin, author of several books on feminism and new masculinities, the president of the equality commission in Congress, Pilar Cancela, Rosa Gómez, president of Teenses for Equality, who has spent her entire life defending the rights of women and a young activist, Sara Doval.
In the conference he also addressed the wage gap and the glass ceiling, at a table formed by the designer Tiziana Dominguez, the leader Lucía Freitas, the councilor for social policies of the city of Santiago, Mila Castro, Y Mother Bouza, CCOO Secretary of Employment.
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