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Speakers include David Martínez Noguera, Councilor for Culture, and Carmen González Nicolás, representative of Amnesty International.
On Friday, December 16, at 10.45 am, the Seminar "Gender Discrimination in Education" was held at the Salesian College Theater in Cartagena, aimed at students, families, educators and residents of the neighborhood of Los Dolores and the city of Cartagena.
This event is part of the Erasmus + Let's say STOP!
To gender discrimination in Education, being one of the activities to be carried out in this second year (2016-2017), which will also be disseminated through social networks, web pages of the Center and European platforms such as "Erasmus + Project Platform".
As a presentation of the seminar began the Pedagogical Director of the Secondary and Secondary stages José Arnau, highlighting the great importance that young people have in eradicating from the new society to which they belong the fact that this type of discrimination still exists.
The seminar was moderated by two 1st grade students giving way to the speakers in turns of 15 minutes starting David Martinez Noguera, Delegate Councilor for Culture, Education and Equality of the City of Cartagena who stressed that although it appears that there is no such discrimination In our country this is not the case, and since since arriving at the council, different campaigns have been developed in educational centers with campaigns such as "beyond pink and blue" in schools for non-discrimination of gender in toys, or Campaigns of gender violence in secondary schools.
He also commented on how the students of secondary school often de-emphasize facts such as seeing the mobile of the couple to control it and invited the center to participate in the campaign "If you feel drowned" to be carried out by Valentine.
The Councilman also stressed the importance of analyzing the facts around him and creating their own opinions by putting the example of reggaeton music currently fashionable, and often has very macho lyrics, as well as videos in social networks where also premium this type Of discriminatory themes.
The second intervention was given by Carmen González Nicolás, an Amnesty International representative who began by explaining what this non-profit entity is, a society that is independent of any government and that fights for the rights of people with more than 7 million Of participants around the world and highlighting, inter alia, the abolition of the death penalty, the fight for refugee and immigrant rights, and non-discrimination on the basis of gender.
Carmen explained how many children lack education in some countries, such as child soldiers taken from villages and classrooms observed by their parents and easily substitutable become cooks, bodyguards for commanders, observers, or soldiers among others, And where girls in addition to all of the above are used as sexual object.
Highlighting the figure of Malala a Pakistani who after having received three shots on her school bus simply by going to school became a world reference in the defense of civil rights and received in 2014 novel of peace, where the director Of Amnesty International highlighted Malala's struggle for such a basic duty as that all children have the right to education and as there are still countries with millions of girls out of school, such as Nigeria with 5.5 million.
To conclude her presentation, Carmen explained how, with primary education, young women can reduce maternal mortality by two thirds and child mortality by 15%, more likely to find a job and improve their working and salary conditions, and decrease the probability of Early marriages.
To conclude with Malala's phrase "A child, a teacher and a pencil can change the world".
As the last intervention Carolina Vázquez Rodríguez of the Department of Psychiatry and Social Psychology of the University of Murcia who first thanked the invitation and commented that he liked to ask where the discrimination comes from a personal experience that occurred when he was of similar age to The attendees being witness of a slap in the street by a boy to a girl and that this influenced in its future decision to study psychology and where siutesis realized in over modification of stereotypes before the surprising discovery that the adolescents were very sexist.
By means of examples I explain how from the man of Cromagnon dragged by the hair to the woman by the cave and as until half of century XVII the women could not go to the school, or the penal code that was modified in 1988 and where the woman had More crime than the man in the case of infidelity.
Carolina also explained that this discrimination comes from cultural historical tradition where women are in the background the care and giving of life and the man to take care of that life, and as until the 80's there was discrimination even between the curricula and Educational books where young people have a lot to say to change all this.
As a final conclusion, he emphasized how coeducation can help to change this and to fight on equality of conditions and with initiatives like this project workshops and campaigns on equality.
And finally I invite the young people to buy their first child a little kitchen and the girls a scalextric to help end the stereotypes imposed by society and advertisements.
Finally, there was a question time in which the speakers clarified some doubts about how to ask for help in case of witnessing or suffering a case of violence, which is done in favor of men who also suffer discrimination, or how to help alleviate The discriminatory suffering of the Kurdish people, to conclude with an exposition of the main ideas of the event by the moderators.
Author: Abel Vila Rodríguez
Source: Agencias
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