The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, claimed in A Coruña this morning knowledge as one of the best tools of transformation in the fight for equality and social justice. He did so at the inauguration of the 9th Galician University Conference on Gender, which is held today at the Faculty of Law of the University of A Coruña and is organized by the three Galician universities, of A Coruña, Santiago and Vigo.
María Rivas called for continuing to fight for the presence of women in science and technology, for workplaces and academics free of discrimination and for truly inclusive universities, “issues of great interest to all citizens dynamized through days like today’s, which share that feminism is the way.” Delving into this issue, he called for the institutions to maintain active listening and act responsibly, “without taking a step backwards, because without equality, there is no democracy.”
Delving into this aspect, the subdelegate highlighted the action of Galician public universities as an engine of feminism and equality, contributing to show and point out inequalities, to study their causes and consequences and to train generations of professionals and critical people, committed to equality through teaching and research. In that sense, he valued the celebration of days like the one that takes place today, because they are “an essential space that demonstrates the living strength of feminism, the most powerful mechanism we have to build a more just and egalitarian society.”
María Rivas highlighted the importance of education as a key tool to dismantle the lies and false news that expands “the reactionary and negationist wave of machismo created years ago and in an interested way”. These circumstances further elevate the entity of the problem, “which requires the involvement of all institutions and all citizens and in which the Government of Spain has been strengthening legislation, resources and services to care for victims for years, as well as executing legal advances to implement reparation, prevention and sexual and affective education from early ages.”