I have always been a socialist and I have always been unable to understand a world in which equality and social justice do not reign. Nor have I understood, nor do I understand how we do not care for and respect the planet we live on with sustainability criteria.
Now, under the leadership of Pedro Sánchez, my party reaffirms another of its fundamental features that have always accompanied me throughout my life: feminism. We are clearly and broadly committed to this struggle, which has opened trenches against the trafficking of women, against gender violence and wage, labor and treatment discrimination.
A morning journalist reminds us that, according to the latest CIS sociobarometer, a significant number of people in the 18 to 25 age group define themselves as feminists, just as others are conservatives, liberals or environmentalists.
The news fills me with emotion and corroborates my conviction that, if there is a social advance in Spain that can be described as remarkable, if there is a claim that has captured adhesions and has obtained relevant achievements, it has been that of equal rights between men and women; a battle that in recent years has gone from being anecdotal and typical of a few feminists who were branded as radical and crazy, to becoming widespread among those who advocate a society of progress and justice.
And together with responsible, demanding citizens, with criteria and in full use of their faculties, politics must walk, always attentive, always willing to respond to the demands of the community. Which, by the way, have nothing to do with the positions of female subordination and male guardianship defended by the three rights.
In the socialist electoral program we commit ourselves to legislate to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities in employment and occupation, because autonomy and economic independence are essential for women's freedom.
And a fundamental question: We will modify the classification of sexual crimes to give the absence of consent its proper treatment: The reform of the Penal Code will guarantee that the lack of explicit consent of the victim will be key in sexual crimes. Because when a woman doesn't say yes, everything else is no!
By Ariagona González
