Spain-EIGE meetings-Economic growth and gender equality go hand in hand.
One
of the most important methods to enhance a country's economy is to increase
gender equality.
That
was one of the messages sent at recent discussions between the European Institute
for Gender Equality (EIGE) and Spain's Minister for Equality, Irene Montero.
Focusing
on equal opportunities and rights for everyone improves society as a whole.
Benefits
that have been overdue for a long time.
Spain
has a solid track record in striving toward gender equality, according to the
EIGE Gender Equality Index.
However,
there is still work to be done.
Minister
of Equality Irene Montero, Secretary of State for Equality Angela Rodrguez, and
Director of the Instituto de las Mujeres Antonia Morillas have all acknowledged
this.
We
are completely committed to achieving gender equality. Our economy has
tremendous potential. "All we have to do now is unlock it," Irene
Montero explained.
Angela Rodrguez, the Secretary of State for Equality
and Gender Violence, concurred, pointing out that Spain is a leader in feminist
policy but also wants to be a leader in care.
She
emphasized that Spain's public-sector care system is a crucial economic area
that requires "a fundamental and structural economic change that allows
the development of public jobs in this sector to avoid the existing
precariousness."
Carlien
Scheele, Director of the EIGE, underlined Spain's determination:
There
are still enormous prospects for advancement even in a country like Spain, which
is already ranked sixth on EIGE's Gender-Equality Index.
In
order to achieve gender equality, businesses, individuals, and the government
must take three moves forward. To comprehend the difficulties. To figure out
how to improve things. Then it's time to take action.
And
distributing care tasks more evenly between men and women is a good place to
start. Care is, without a doubt, the motor of economic prosperity.
Antonia
Morillas, Director of Spain's Instituto de las Mujeres, spoke about how to
"strengthen the feminist agenda in the EU against the misogynist and hate
discourse that is advancing" by putting gender equality at the heart of an
economy that truly works for all.
In
addition to the high-level meetings, the EIGE delegation attended talks on
violence, care strategy, and transversality, as well as assisted in the
delivery of a training session for the Ministries' Equality Units in advance of
Spain's EU presidency.