The Lanzarote Bar Association became on Tuesday night "the third in Spain" to change its name to Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Lanzarote, to eliminate gender "discrimination". "Now it will be a more egalitarian and fair association, in accordance with these times," said José Carlos Rojas, the lawyer who promoted this initiative last February.
Rojas believes that the change of name of the Lanzarote Bar Association "is a historical fact and a very important event for the association", in addition to being "a tribute to the female lawyers who have been, those who are now and those who will come in the future". "An association that is very small, that is barely 24 years old, but that is also an example for other associations to follow the same path", considers this lawyer, who has the "hope" that "the role of women in society will be greater and greater" and we will have "a more egalitarian and better world". "I am tremendously excited, because I believe that women are going to lead a great change for the world," he says.
The only thing José Carlos Rojas regrets is that the participation in the assembly in which the vote was carried out was "very low". And it is that, according to what he has recognized, of the "around 400 practicing and non-practicing" that make up the now Lanzarote Bar Association, just over 30 attended it. "But I do not believe that the decision, however minimal the participation may be considered, is illegitimate for this reason," the lawyer defended.