Events unfold. The global COVID pandemic shakes the world. Wars of other times, unjust and bloody, dominate the debate and international attention. The confrontation between Casado and Ayuso forces the Popular Party to bring forward its congress. Rafa Nadal continues his successful season, chaining triumphs. The Mobile World Congress is held in Barcelona, after two years of stoppage...
These are the headlines of these dates, the great arguments of the news, the issues on which the media and social networks invite citizens to reflect, celebrate or take a position.
And, probably, on March 8, buildings will be lit in violet, giant ribbons will be displayed, massive demonstrations will be called and hundreds of reports and articles will be disseminated, like this one: printed pages and hours of broadcasting that will focus the discourse on the search for real equality between men and women.
But March 9 will come and the objectives and aspirations of the feminist cause will fade like a candle until November 25 because, it is true, more and more of us flatly reject the normalization of gender violence.
But what happens the rest of the year? What about the other 363 days that complete the calendar?
One day is not enough. Only the effective involvement of society, only the conviction that macho behavior is in no way acceptable, can lead to the necessary change towards a balanced and equal coexistence.
Let's not look the other way in the face of femicide figures; let's not accept gender gaps in pay, responsibilities or visibility of achievements. Never again behind a great man will there be a woman without adjectives. Next to a man, a woman; in front of many men, many women who deserve it, who have earned it on their own merits.
March 8 is International Women's Day, for those who work outside and do it inside, or in both places, who are legion. It is a date to celebrate the fortune of femininity, the pride of being us, the long struggle for our rights and the union in sorority that propels us forward, without faltering.
March 8, yes. But let's not forget it, also the rest of the year.
Lucía Olga Tejera. Deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group for Lanzarote