Female employment is rising, with numbers and are encouraged to speak in Spain and parts of Europe, however, this reality has not responded to clear employment policies from the relevant sectors of the various governments, but to other realities underlying the tough stage of economic crisis that exists in much of Europe.
In this regard we have said that the woman who once took care of the house and children, had to leave to look for part-time jobs to help the household economy as the crisis that exists in Spain and much of Europe has ceased many unemployed heads of households or without sufficient income to support a family.
It is for this reason that the announcement by the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in which he stated that “the Spanish Presidency of the European Union will encourage this semester various social and labor strategies to increase female employment rate and make reach 70% in the next decade, further reducing the maximum wage gap “has been welcomed in the industry and dedicated to Zapatero as” ally “of women’s employment policies.
Zapatero’s announcement was made in connection with the closing of the V Meeting Spain-Africa Women for a Better World, which also pledged not to undermine the support of development cooperation in spite of the austerity policy and expenditure control social set in Spain.
In the same context, Equality Minister Bibiana Aido, presented the proposed Strategic Plan for Women for a better world for the next three years, through a text open to debate, to be approved at the next summit in Namibia .
This plan has four pillars: the first one is based on the political and social participation of women to “make a better world ‘, the second focuses on income generation, given that” poverty remains a woman’s face’ The third pillar bean and sexual rights is to “eliminate” certain forms of violence against women and, finally, Education, because it is a “right” for women that ‘training and equals “and that allows them to be” aware of their situation and train them for making decisions.