March 6, 2024.- The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, presented this morning, accompanied by the Secretary of State for Equality and for the Eradication of Violence against Women, Aina Calvo, the institutional campaign on the occasion of the 8M, International Women's Day.
Redondo highlighted the need to “raise awareness among all citizens that both men and women join the feminist struggle”. The union of forces is the basis of the campaign that the Ministry of Equality launches this year on the occasion of 8M.
The campaign ‘With M of Women. All the Women. Muévete’ focuses on that common cause that has mobilized so many women throughout history. It reminds us of the path we have traveled and invites us to continue moving forward.
She also stresses that 8M claims are common to all women and stresses that it is essential to advance hand in hand to achieve common goals.
The minister explained that the campaign arose after learning the results of the first survey on the perception of equality and gender stereotypes published by the CIS. “It made us reflect and we understood that it was necessary to go back to the origin, to explain again why public policies of equality are necessary, why there is International Women’s Day, why we must continue to claim and work to achieve equality between women and men,” she explained.
Improvement for all citizenship
In this sense, Redondo has claimed that equality means an improvement in life for all people, whether women or men: “It is our raison d’être as a society. We need an equitable, balanced society, where gender gaps are overcome. We have made progress, but there is a lot left, so we have to move.”
For her part, the Secretary of State for Equality and for the Eradication of Violence against Women, Aina Calvo, stressed that “the campaign appeals to the roots of those women who began to organize publicly, demonstrate, concentrate, claim and claim throughout the last century and who gave rise to International Women’s Day”. As he stressed, “it is an integrative campaign, which sends a positive message, of empowerment, and which, in addition to looking to the present, continues to propose broadening those advances for the future.”