Even on 8M, which should be a day to row on the same side, we find several positions... on the one hand, women who say “don't congratulate me for being a woman” and another side where women feel and do not see inequalities, they believe that the panorama has advanced enough not to see discrimination today in the West.
We also see an extra libertarian position where mercantilism is implicit... congratulating the exclusively working woman, as if the fact of being a woman is insufficient to congratulate you for being in this world, which for most of its history, without a doubt, has been unequal.
Regarding the first point, I do believe that 8M can be a cocktail of both positions. Because it is undeniable that the social advances achieved by the grassroots Feminist Movement have penetrated society, and if we analyze our present with the present that women like Ana Orantes lived, it is true that we appreciate a change in the social perspective, however, the reason for Ana's murder still exists today, it is condemned with greater force, but women continue to be murdered for the fact of being women. It is true, I am concerned about the divisions because when a truth is questioned, the absoluteness of certainty is overshadowed.
And I do believe that we should all be united in the main approach to this issue: gender inequality has existed and exists. These divisions of perspective have been sown by political currents with some radical approaches, not shared by the entire movement. Inequality exists, also in a diversity of areas, in the workplace, possibly less and less, but it still exists. For example, isn't it unequal that to this day neither Spain, nor the US, nor our autonomous community of the Canary Islands have had a female president leading? Doesn't that mean that there is a leadership inequality?
Regarding gender roles, stereotypes are true that we can find them in both sexes, but there is no doubt that aspects such as aging, the passage of age, are still pending issues. Just as conciliation will be legislated to equate it, but neither, due to biological aspects, is it still achieved.
Yes, we are different, men and women biologically, that is undeniable, but even in our differences, we need, to advance, to achieve equity and approach it. The pending issue in this 2025? I think it is still the same, bringing the feminist movement closer to men and making them feel involved. Because yes, we need men to enjoy an egalitarian society. Really.
