I must confess that I have felt excited about the news of the Andalusian president's pregnancy. Not for the pregnancy itself, but for what it represents.
Faced with the absurd statements of the president of the Business Circle questioning the opportunity to hire women of childbearing age, the image of Susana Díaz pregnant will add to the one that once occupied the cover photos of the national press, Carme Chacón reviewing the troops in an advanced state of gestation.
As a woman, as a socialist, I can only feel proud. Little by little, without denying the difficulties, the effective equality between men and women is consolidated as a result of a collective effort in which the women and men of the socialist party have played a fundamental role. I do not intend in any case to score the point.
I recognize that, as a party, our role has been to bring to the institutions the demands for equality demanded mostly by the citizens and, especially, by so many women who have left their skin in the daily struggle, at street level, to earn their right not to be less. We have done it and we will continue to do so.
Now it's Susana's turn. Like any woman, like so many women, she will be able to reconcile her work life with her family life, but her public dimension will make this pregnancy an evident proof that neither gestation is a disease, nor motherhood a limitation.
Surely during this time there will be some inopportune headline (there has already been one) and some talk show will pontificate about the limitations of the pregnant president (someone has already done it).
But in the face of these residual samples of machismo, I am left with the image of Susana who, like any woman, will be able to assume her motherhood with total normality. She, in her political tasks; others in factories, in offices, in the countryside, taking care of their homes and families... wherever life has placed them.
María Dolores Corujo, general secretary of the PSOE in Lanzarote