Albacete.- The government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has attended the institutional event on the occasion of International Women's Day, this year in Almansa, organized by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha. She defended that it was progressive governments that made a difference in the fight against inequality in Spain and strongly promoted feminist public policies.
For this year, the UN has chosen as its motto ‘For an inclusive digital world: innovation and technology for gender equality’ and, in this regard, Tierraseca has explained that the digital divide also has a gender perspective, because women continue to maintain an unfavourable position in digital skills and Internet uses, since only 2% of employed women are in the ICT sector, compared to 5.7% of men.
“8-M,” said the delegate, “is still a day of reclaiming, but it is also a day in which we reaffirm our commitment to the real and effective equality of women and men, which has been demonstrated with yet another sign of progress, with the approval, yesterday, of the Parity Law.”
Along with it, Tierraseca has listed other previous legislative initiatives in this line, such as the Organic Law on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence in 2004, the reform of the Divorce Law, or the modification of the Civil Code, allowing marriage between people of the same sex, in 2005. He also mentioned the Organic Law for the Effective Equality of Women and Men, in 2007, the State Pact against Gender Violence, in 2017, or the approval, last year, of the III Strategic Plan for the Effective Equality of Women and Men, with an expected investment of 21,319 million euros.
The new rule, approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers will allow, the delegate said, to guarantee by law the equal composition in electoral candidacies, as well as in the Council of Ministers, in the governing boards of the general councils and boards of directors of large companies, in professional associations and juries that award prizes or public recognitions.
For the delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, deepening the debate on the division of measures adopted with other progressive forces “is only beneficial for the detractors of the rights already achieved, the deniers of gender inequality, choosing to discriminate against half of the population of our country and marginalize their capacities and talents.”
For all these reasons, Tierraseca has been convinced that “the 21st century will undoubtedly be the century of the Feminist Revolution, by law and justice”.