Hi boys and girls,
Today we celebrate the
International Women's Day,
originally called International Working Women's Day. It is a day to
remark women's economic, political and social achievements.
I would like to speak with you today about some data I found
about the situation of women around the world, and others specific from
Spain. Here you have some interesting fractions:
.1.
Women and girls do 2/3 of global labour.
2.
For every $ 100 earned by a man for
his work, the woman doing the same received only 80. In an average working life, women
earn half a million dollars less than men.
3. In Spain, 6 out of 10
university students are women, although
only 11 of 77 chancellors
in our country are.
4. In Spain, 38 in 100 women have stopped
working for over a year for the
birth of their children, while
only 7 out of 100 men do so.
5. 19 out of 20 maternity requests
for childcare leave are applied for by the mothers.
6. In Spain, there are only 132
female deputies, of the 350
representatives in Parliament.
7. In RAE (Spanish Academy of Language),
there have only been 5 women out of
460 members in History.
8. Only 10 out of the 100
honorary doctors in Spain are women.
9. 2 out of 3 of the world's illiterates are women.
10.Only 10 of the 100 Presidents and
Boards of Directors of the IBEX-35 are
women.
11.In the total of the governments of the EU, women represent only ¼.
12.Only 28 of every 100 workers in
medium-high technology corporations are
women.
What can we do? What do you think about this?
Let me know in your comments,
ALICIA
