Global campaigners are showcasing events to mark Women's Day on Friday with...
MADRID - Global campaigners are showcasing events to mark Women’s Day on Friday with the slogan ‘a balanced world is a better world’ - but in Spain the gender equality debate is sowing divisions that appear deeper than ever.
In a society where the emergence since then of Vox, a new far-right party, is tapping into pockets of nostalgia for a staunchly traditionalist past, women’s rights have become a pivotal topic in campaigning for national elections due on April 28.In a video it posted on social media, some of its female supporters compared feminism to an “ideological burqa” and brandished “Don’t speak in my name” placards in protest at the strikes, rallies and other events planned for Friday.
“We won’t take part in the March 8th feminist strike because it denigrates women by treating them as weak and helpless people,” tweeted Vox. “Vox is a community of voters that is reacting against feminism,” said Belen Barreiro, director of the 40DB research institute. The PP’s position is less clear, and the question of gender equality could potentially be an issue if PP, Vox and the center-right Ciudadanos were to try and form a coalition government after the election.
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