With a call to reflect and make visible the gaps and barriers that still persist in female labor insertion, the National Congress carried out the first activity that marks the month of women, ahead of next March 8, International Women’s Day. Women.
In the presence of authorities, officials, special guests and civil society, an event was held that had as a corollary the lighting of the institutional building, which was dressed in purple, used as a symbol related to the events that occurred in a textile factory in New York, where a center of workers lost their lives in a fire, in the midst of the fight for labor demands.
The activity was convened by the Women and Gender Equality Commissions of the Senate and the Chamber, chaired by Senator Gustavo Sanhueza and María Francisca Bello, through the Tripartite Gender Table of the National Congress.
At the meeting, a video was shown in which four women -Karen Palma, vice president of women and gender equality of the CUT; Rosa Devés, rector of the University of Chile; Sonia Arce, promoter of the project that modifies the marital partnership regime; and Natalia Ducó, a high-performance Chilean athlete – shared their views, trajectories, learnings and life experiences.
In addition, a musical tribute was paid to Chilean artists, through the voice of singer-songwriter Paula Batarce and her band Hojas Pardas, and during the day an exhibition was set up about the advances and gaps of women in the field of education and of labor insertion.
It should be noted that, at the time of the activity, the Senate was in full voting on the project on the right of women to a life free of violence, a text that was sent to the third step, after 8:20 p.m. Issue that was highlighted during the activity.
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