The Law against Gender Violence or the Equality Law, constitute authentic milestones of which socialist women and men can feel legitimately proud.
However, we cannot be content and even less fall into complacency. History shows that social changes are much slower, and more complex, than legislative changes.
Especially after the authentic black four years that Mariano Rajoy's mandate has meant, inequality continues to wreak havoc.
Women earn almost a third less than our colleagues. Poverty, increasingly, has a woman's face. Gender violence and its hateful cohort of dead women continues to roam among us.
There is still much to be done. It remains to ensure that the provisions of the laws are transferred to the principles and values that guide our daily lives.
Even today, sexism permeates education, coexistence and even the education that our girls and boys receive.
That is why the celebration of March 8 is still necessary.
Because women continue to constitute that half of the population that is different in opportunities and rights from the other half.
As a woman, as a politician, I feel enormous rage when I stop and think that in the 21st century the challenge remains the same: to be equal, rabidly and profoundly equal.
I know we have made progress. I know that much has been done. But at times it seems scarce. Every time a new death occurs, we realize how insufficient our work is. Every time a statistical figure on salary differences hits us, we become aware of everything that remains to be done.
I have to make an effort. I have to strive to be objective and look at the Official State Gazette and recognize that the legislative work is done. But then I stop and think about the enormous amount of work that remains to be done in our homes, in institutions, in companies.
Therefore, because there is still much to be done, it is still necessary to commemorate March 8.
María Dolores Corujo Berriel, Insular Secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote