It is urgent to take it to the workplace
The president of Copred CDMX, Geraldina González de la Vega, emphasized that the issue of care must also be taken to the field of employers and the labor market to guarantee the rights of women and with this they can break out of the circle of violence.
“At the end of the day, the fact that women have an income and can have economic autonomy allows us in many cases to get out of issues of violence,” she explained in the Expansion Meeting.
González de la Vega commented that complaints of dismissal due to pregnancy occupy the first place in Mexico City, except last year when they were surpassed by health issues such as COVID-19.
This, he said, has to do with co-responsibility policies that force women to be, who from the perspective of employers “do not perform as workers”, so they end up firing them or harassing them to resign, when all this is discriminatory .
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For her part, María José Alcalá, the first woman to preside over the Mexican Olympic Committee, explained that in the sports field there are gaps not only with those who practice it, but also with judges and referees, and even with the authorities that comprise it.
“In its conception, the International Olympic Committee is not for women (…) we could not even go to see the Olympic Games, now women have more presence although it is still complicated in women”, he recalled about the differences that are experienced even when there are already more spaces and competitors, but not the same supports.
I think it is very important to see how we can put the issues in the field, it is important to see how you light up the dark streets, how I make sure there is a safe place for each space for women, in sports, how I give them security.
María José Alcalá, president of the Mexican Olympic Committee.
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Not only in the sports sector, in the world of work inequalities and violations of women’s rights continue to occur.
The participants recalled that the wage gap between men and women remains.
Senator Mercado explained that one of the things that can help is transparency, that is to say that salaries and positions are visible, because with this it is shown that although in terms of the total number of workers, there are more women, “in terms of salary They are at the bottom of the salary pyramid.
In turn, Belén Sanz referred that the wage gap continues to be a deep wound, since 50% of women earn a minimum wage, that is, there are many more women who earn less, so from Congress this rights agenda where the salary gap is very important, it can be addressed.
