AFAL Cartagena and the region will have its own Equality Plan that formalizes its commitment to equality between men and women, avoiding discrimination of any kind.During the confinement, among the services performed, the management of offers of home assistants increased due to the consequences of COVID-19, since AFAL Cartagena and the region, work has been done to respond to this increase in needs.95% of the more than 100 offers managed are positions filled by women.The social stigma of gender increases with the health crisis, in the false belief that care is the task only of women.
This situation makes evident a discrimination that affects the development, personal and professional of women.
For this and other reasons, the association of relatives of Alzheimer's and other pathologies in Cartagena and the region has signed the commitment to carry out the complete equality plan, with training, evaluation and monitoring.The objective of this Equality Plan is none other than to strengthen the principle of equality and prevention of any discriminatory situation, the entity defends and complies, in addition to increasingly joining companies and organizations that publicly commit to work in this area.
, so necessary in today's society.To ensure the transparency, achievement and monitoring of the plan, the different actions that will be carried out will be publicly reflected once the diagnosis is obtained that determines how progress can be made in matters of equality and non-discrimination.
Source: AFAL Cartagena y comarca