Elvira Gimeno, a professor of English at IES Fleet Murcia and activist and scholar of the feminist movement and the status of women in our country, was responsible for delivering the talk, which was at the center of it, besides the explanation of why a March 8, the feminization of poverty.
According to Elvira, "Speaking of feminization of poverty is talk of a reality that comes from afar: feminism takes time using this term to connote the growing material impoverishment of women, worsening living conditions and violations of their rights fundamental. When the general impression is that women's lives are improving worldwide, the figures belie this topic.'s a verifiable fact, for example, that in families of the First and Third World, the distribution of income equality does not follow guidelines, but its members have access to a hierarchy of cast headed by gender criteria. "
For the rapporteur "To date there have been found other policies that undermine both economic exploitation and social subordination of positive action measures.'s Why, when it comes to what is for the State to abandon its role in redistributing resources social and leave it to the market, criticize public policies on the grounds that protect those who are targeted is the less sarcasm. "
Elvira Gimeno, convinced feminist also states that "In Spain there are eight million poor people, most of whom are women. And the trend towards the feminization of poverty is testable in the North and in the south. That old dream get rid of poverty has become a chimera. Faced with the persistent poverty of women and against female immigration located mainly in prostitution, domestic service and other tasks as defined underpaid and new kinds of bondage, feminism can not deny the need to expand social policies. "
Finally, Elvira Gimeno also criticized the abandonment from their point of view is making the PP of equality policies and gender violence, which marks which are the priorities for this government, which has drastically reduced the money budgeted this year in these policies.
