Preparing on March 8: 100 years of feminist struggle

On March 8, 2010: 100 Years of struggle for the genre equality

The international celebration of the “Day of the Women” was established in the second International Conference of Socialistic Women in Copenhagen in 1910, thanks to the proposal of Clara Zetkin. The women agreed to join his struggles for the rights of the hard-working women, for the protection of the mothers and his sons and daughters, for the right to vote, for a common front from the high prices of the products provoked by the avidity of benefit of the monopolies and from the career armamentística.

In this hundred of years the genre equality has been recognized like a fundamental human right. The International Convention of the UNO for the Elimination of the Discrimination against the Women (CEDAW) constitutes a good international base.

European and international legislation was promulgated like result of long and hard struggles of the feminist movement, although it continues the inequality d and fact opposite to the iure equality.

At present, the neoliberal model that has provoked the economic, social and cultural crisis, threatens to eliminate not only the conquests of the women, but even the beginning on which they are based.

The work of the women is now more a slave for misery wages, without insurance, with a violent dealing, threats, sexual harassment, with discriminatory dismissals in case of pregnancy and working conditions that the life can cost them even.

The welfare state disintegrates with the privatization of the fields that are the base of an equality substantiva: health, education, social security, attention and care of major persons and of the infancy. The state bonds of the well-being are loaded on the backs of the women.

The proposals to raise the retirement age are especially harmful for the women, and there have been equal to the fall the positive measurements that in this sense existed in some European countries.

The violence has been intensified against the women, and too many women are murdered by genre violence. Also it is discussed or invalidates in some countries the right to the abortion, and in the same countries the private right (therefore it refers to the family) is evolving in a conservative direction, while the politics remains dominated by the machismo.

The attack of the neoliberalism to the political and social rights of the women has also its own expression in the ideological sphere. A systematical propaganda exists so that the part-time work is the only form of stipendiary work to which the women can aspire.

The political conservative circles and the Church attack the rights of the women. There stuffs itself in a systematical way the sexuality of the women, his right to decide and his sexual orientation.

We, the women of the European Left, cannot accept that the people pay the consequences of the crisis of the capitalism.

We defend strongly our acquired rights, and demand that the exit to the crisis should not take place at the expense of the people, but of the monopolies, of the big companies and of the banks.

We want the genre equality on the labor market, to equal work, equal salary, and the same opportunities for women and men on the labor market.

We want that it is possible to combine works and familiar life with the reduction of the day of work and the establishment of the public services of quality for the care of the infancy, the biggest and sick persons.

We want equal participation and representation of the women in politics and in all the institutions that take important decisions, and 50 % of all the benches and places of representation.

We demand that there should be guaranteed the sexual and reproductive rights of the women.

We are in favor of an European law that legalizes the abortion in the whole territory of the European Union.

We demand an European law against the genre violence.

We demand the same rights and opportunities for the emigrant and refugee women.

We do not want to turn into women "poor workers".

The feminist movement allied with the labor movement and the movement for the rights equality is opposed to the monopolies, to the big companies and to the banks.

Our slogan is “THEY WILL NOT HAPPEN” of PAINS IBARRURI

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