CIP Tafalla - 8M International Women's Day

THE ROAD TO EQUALITY

This March 8, International Women's Day, we want to highlight the importance of care for the development and well-being of citizens.

The pandemic has exposed the crisis of the current care model, and that it does not work without the work of thousands of women. Care is essential to sustain life, but it is often free, invisible, precarious and feminized.

It continues to fall mostly on women and the equitable distribution of care responsibilities is a pending challenge and an opportunity to build a more egalitarian society.

We cannot forget that all people are born interdependent and in need of care, and that is why we want to once again underline the need to make a change in the approach to care. It is essential to overcome gender inequalities, roles and stereotypes and raise awareness among all citizens to give visibility and value to the tasks that sustain life, both physically, emotionally and mentally.

But what are we talking about when we talk about "caring"? We refer to the development of a series of tasks, paid or not, that are essential for our physical and emotional well-being. The need to be taken care of is inherent to the human being; all people are going to need them at different times of life, in different intensities.

María Romeo (Early Childhood Education student):

"In our school we have made an exchange of roles between the students of Early Childhood Education (mostly girls, only two boys) and Machining students (mostly boys, only two girls).

In the exchange, the Machining classmates prepared a series of activities for the Children Education class and viceversa.

All this intends to show that there are no studies for boys or girls, anyone can do them.

It was an entertaining day and it was also an opportunity for students from different modules to get to know each other since they study in different buildings and had never met before."

Images of some of the workshops that have been carried out in our school to highlight the exchange of traditionally considered male and female roles: