Feminist, social, political and union organizations will carry out a series of demonstrations throughout the country, this Monday the 9th, in commemoration of the International Day of Working Women and the demand for their rights.
The federal day will have as its central objective the same demands that have championed the date more than 10 years ago, such as the fight against sexist violence, the wage gap, job insecurity and the defense of the rights achieved, in the face of possible setbacks that the National Government threatens.
In our country, and according to the report published by the observatory of the organization MuMaLá (Women of the Latin American Motherland) that covers the months of January and February of this year, a femicide is recorded every 39 hours, that is, an average of 0.6 deaths per day (one victim every day and a half).
Regarding the salary situation, the analysis carried out last week by the Center for Argentine Political Economy (CEPA) indicated that the income of men exceeds that of women by between 27% and 29%, a gap that widens according to the jobs and informal working conditions.
Regarding the upbringing of children, according to a document published in September of last year by the UNICEF Situation of Children and Adolescents office, 7 out of 10 parents in Argentina do not meet the food quota and it is the mother who is in charge of the maintenance, education, food and health of children.
Regarding this Monday’s event, the ‘Ni Una Menos’ collective was the one who promoted the call, which was joined by the CGT and the two CTA (Workers and the Autonomous); the left-wing feminist group Pan y Rosas, made up of national representative (FIT) Myriam Bregman; and the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion (which participates as part of traditional feminist organizations), among others.
Bregman also called on “all the women who share their fights in Congress” and who are “the true protagonists in the streets of each of these struggles”: “To march together with Bread and Roses and organize, because we have to show again the power of our collective strength,” she added.
The decision to move the main march from Sunday the 8th to Monday the 9th was made in order to make this problem visible not only with the mobilizations, but with a stoppage of activities that demonstrates the importance of women in both the economy and society.
The main concentration will start from the National Congress towards the Plaza de Mayo, starting at 4:30 p.m. and will extend to all the provinces and the main cities of the country.
