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Cartagena will host this Saturday 18 February the 'Regional Meeting of Rural Women' organized by the Association 'Water and Land' and the Coordinator of Associations of Farmers and Livestock of the Region of Murcia (COAG), and with which the City Council Cartagena.
A meeting that will take place in the Faculty of Enterprise Sciences of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, and which seeks to encourage participation and give visibility to the important role of women working in the rural world, as presented by Councilwoman Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Obdulia Gómez, who was accompanied at the press conference by Dolores Díaz, president of 'Agua y Tierra', and Juana Mayordomo, member of the association's executive.
The day is entitled "Women defending the rural and agrarian future of the Region of Murcia", and it is expected that around 300 women farmers and livestock.
The inaugural event will be attended by the mayor of Cartagena, José López, and also attend the councilor for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development and Councilor for Equality, David Martinez.
Through various presentations, we will talk about the empowerment of women in the rural world, of employment opportunities within the agricultural and livestock sector, and will make known the needs and proposals of the association 'Water and Land', among other issues.
The Councilor for Agriculture and Rural Development, has described as "a privilege and a pleasure" the opportunity to host this event in which equality of opportunity, salary, work and family life balance, or shared ownership will be advocated.
In short, all the problems that affect women in rural areas, "who traditionally have been masculinized" will be discussed.
That is why Gómez has indicated that the Consistory has turned from the first moment with this initiative, and has encouraged all participants "to continue working and claiming the necessary improvements and claiming all the means they need to achieve the Real equality of opportunity ".
DIFFICULT EQUALITY TO ACHIEVE IN FAVOR OF LEGAL ADVANCES
The president of Agua y Tierra, an association for the integral development of women in rural areas, wanted to highlight two issues that will be discussed in this day.
On the one hand, the shared ownership of holdings.
An aspect regulated in Law 35/2011, which was created in order to change the fact that, in the field of family farming in the rural environment, many women share agricultural tasks with men, but in the In most cases, only man is the holder of the agricultural holding.
An Act that nevertheless has had little impact in the Region of Murcia, since, since it came into force, only one woman has accepted its regime, Diaz recalled.
On the other hand will address the role of women working in the rural area with reference to the new 'Strategic Plan for Equality of the Region of Murcia'.
An important issue, given that the difficulties women face in the rural world are much greater than those found in urban areas, as the councilor stressed.
Something that Dolores Diaz has exemplified with the stereotypes that still exist in this field, such as questioning the woman, not the man, for the hard work that is done in the field, or doubting that they actually work in this field simply by Their dress or to be more arranged in social events
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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