The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cecilia Lopezannounced during the conversation ‘Change is with women’ revealed that Colombiaas stipulated in the National Development Plan (PND), seeks to recognize unpaid care as a productive activity.
“The bottom of the inequality between men and women lies in the ignorance of the unpaid care economy, which are those activities that women do in the home. You have to take that care out of the home so that the State and the market assume it ”said the minister.
(‘Dane’s challenge is technological transformation’).
This proposal seeks, according to the portfolio manager, give it economic recognition in order to enable positive effects in the financing of social projects focused on the restitution and delivery of land.
(This is the patrimony of Petro and his ‘trusted’ officials).
Likewise, look for women have a greater role in the agro-industrial labor market, thus generating positive effects reflected in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.
(Government gave rural families more than 3,500 hectares of land).
“If we achieve this, Colombia will be the first country in the world to recognize that unpaid care is a productive activity.added Lopez.
(Colombia and Korea join in the implementation of rural reform).
According to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, 36% of women have paid work, while 61% of men meet this same condition. One of the points that the Ministry points out, domestic work falls mainly on women, otherwise on men.
Finally, Minister López added that the actions carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development are focused on 50% of the beneficiaries of the programs and policies to be carried out are women, especially with the agrarian reform.
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