The Subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, participated today, together with the General Secretary of the Subdelegation of the Government, María Isabel Alonso, and other workers of the state agency, in the placement of a banner on the occasion of International Women’s Day. The badge will be hung on the outside of the main façade of the Government Subdelegation building in Pontevedra throughout the week.
Abel Losada reiterated, during this event, the commitment of the Government to "turn feminism into a matter of State" and promote all public policies "that can remove the inequalities that women suffer from the fact of being women". In particular, the subdelegate highlighted labour and economic rights, on a day when the province’s employment figures were released. “Although this month’s data are positive and show a growth in Social Security affiliation, as well as a decrease in unemployment figures, 58% of unemployed people in the province are women,” he said.
In this regard, the subdelegate stressed the importance of continuing to advance towards real and effective equality in the workplace, which would put an end to the various gender disparities that continue to negatively affect women, such as the wage gap or the greater precariousness in female employment.
Abel Losada also highlighted the significant improvements in the situation of women in the labour market thanks to the reforms promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, and which in Galicia resulted, among others, in the reduction of the wage differences between men and women in four points from 2018 to 2021. “Despite these advances, effective equality in all fields will continue to be a priority for this government until it is achieved,” he recalled.
The placement of this banner is part of the program of events on the occasion of the 8M organized by the Subdelegation of the Government and which are completed with the inauguration, today in Vigo, of the first violet point of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) in the province, a training course to act in situations of violence against foreign women that will take place on Thursday and the reading of the institutional declaration of the Government on the occasion of the International Women's Day one day later. The violet dots will also be installed in the 17 offices that the SEPE has in the province starting with the one located in the provincial capital.