The government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, has attended the event in commemoration of the International Day for Equal Pay, organized by the Association of Businesswomen and Professionals of Valencia (EVAP).
Barnabas pointed out that “the wage gap is one of the issues that lowers a country’s level of equality.” Therefore, “the best way to combat inequalities is the BOE and the active policies, the courageous policies, the policies that cause these inequalities to be corrected year by year”. And, in this sense, “Spain is the country of the European Union that has most corrected the salary gap in Europe”. Thus, he recalled, Spain has gone from being the number eleven country in equality indices in Europe to being in fourth place in recent years. “This growth responds to the laws that the Government of Spain has been approving over the last few years. The last and the most concrete, the Law of Parity.” In addition, he recalled, this week the reform of the State Pact against Gender Violence will be approved, which includes, among other things, a measure to combat economic violence.
“Working for equal pay is essential, but for that it is also necessary that consensuses are given in the Congress of Deputies, in the Courts and in the municipalities, and that what used to be institutional declarations do not become motions that they only face.” There are certain issues, he added, that must be the absolute consensus of all political parties and it is regrettable that there are political parties that are not in these claims.”