President Luis Lacalle Pou posted a message for Women’s Day on his Twitter, in which he focused on the search for a “equal opportunities” for men and women.
“Equal rights for women is enshrined in our Constitution. put it in writing is not sufficientWith which From the government we also seek to advance equal opportunities”the president wrote this Wednesday, in a publication that he closed with the hashtag #8M.
Equal rights for women is enshrined in our Constitution. Putting it in writing is not enough, with which the government also seeks to advance equal opportunities. #8M
— Luis Lacalle Pou (@LuisLacallePou) March 8, 2023
Lacalle Pou will participate this Wednesday in the activity called #ValemosIgual that will be led by the director of InMujeres, Mónica Bottero, where data from the latest Time Use Survey will be presented regarding the hours that men and women dedicate to care tasks and of home.
The results show, As anticipated by El Observadorthat Uruguayan women spend, on average, 35 weekly hours for housework and carewhile the males only 20.
The unequal distribution of unpaid work “should be understood as a inequality of rightsbut also as a negotiation problem within a couple, so inequality in responsibility for children belongs to bothlimitation when it comes to being employed and choosing the type of employment, lower remuneration, less representation in power groups, less time to practice politicsdiscontinuous work trajectories that make retirements worse, a disincentive for fertility and a long etcetera”, explained the sociologist Karina Batthyány.
The Feminist Intersocial called for a international women’s strike, and will march from Plaza Libertad to the University of the Republic at 6:00 p.m. Among other claims, the organization denounces a “abandonment of the State”, and points to “unpaid and persecuted double work”.
For the Intersocial “andThe withdrawal of the State and the dismantling of public policies carried out by the Mides (Ministry of Social Development)” implied that women assume “care tasks for women and children who suffer violence” and that they take charge of “to guarantee food to hundreds of thousands of families who eat in popular pots”.
