The United Nations has dedicated this March 8, 2021 to a specific objective: to open the doors to female leadership, to achieve a collective goal, which is an equal future in the world of Covid-19.
In theory, as fifty percent of the population, we women own half of everything, half of the oxygen we breathe, half of the food the earth produces, and half of the water. And as far as social organization is concerned, half of the obligations and half of the responsibilities. In theory.
Unfortunately, the percentage of poverty, educational, health and training care, leisure time, quality of life, exercise of rights, decreases when we speak in the feminine. And although it is true that in the global calculation Western societies approximate their figures broken down by gender, a large part of the world keeps girls and women in a situation of semi-slavery.
There have been many centuries, all we remember! of male leadership, a way of exercising decision-making that is always unfair, always unbalanced, full of advantages and privileges for fifty percent of the population, for them.
Therefore, the UN points to the need for women to be in command: to do what they did not do, to manage with justice, balance, without privileging, without discriminating. Because it is our turn to try, because we have suffered generalized mistreatment, because, without a doubt, we will know how to do it better. Or at least, different.
If we stop at the term, our proposal for an equal future is well understood. Our power is sheltered in a verb, it is the capacity to achieve the objectives. Male power is substantive and defines the exercise of authority.
Perhaps the sum of fifty percent of their power and fifty percent of ours will become the perfect equation, the one that brings us a non-invasive and non-destructive development of the planet, the one that grants equal rights and duties to all, respecting the differences, the variety of cultures and dreams, the fabric of peaceful coexistence that is the highest collective aspiration. We have to try!
Lucía Olga Tejera, Deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group
