A-Infos (en) Italy, UCDI #183 - What's new - Women (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On March 8, 2024, women around the world celebrated a celebration of 
struggle in a panorama of poor results if not regression of their 
conditions of equality and parity in the world. The only positive signal 
seems to come from France where the National Assembly, by a very large 
majority, decided to amend the Constitution, introducing the right to 
abortion, in order to strengthen the right of every woman to responsible 
motherhood, to exercise the choice if and how to manage a pregnancy. 
From now on it will be more difficult, in France, to hinder the 
exercise of this right, to pass restrictive interpretations of the law, 
to invent bureaucratic loopholes, to allow conscientious objectors to 
hide behind the exercise of the medical profession to exercise their 
power , and this even if the right, once conquered, to manage one's own 
body must always and in any case be defended, like all rights.
But this seems to be one of the few, if not the only, positive signals 
coming from different countries because, for example, in Ireland the two 
referendums with which they wanted to modify the language of the 1937 
Constitution with a less chauvinistic and introduce a new notion of 
family as a supportive society based on emotional relationships and not 
on marriage, whether heterosexual or homosexual.
But that's not all, in the wars fought all over the world rape is used 
liberally as a weapon of war: Hamas militants did it on 7 October in the 
assault on Israel, while the Israeli army did it before, bombing, 
machine-gunning, killing women and children, indiscriminately and 
denying that they are carrying out genocide.
But violence against women also occurs at the level of "ordinary" 
murders, motivated by the need to exercise power, in the form of rape, 
to reaffirm the superiority and right of man to possess the woman's 
body, according to a culture patriarchal that lasts. The hatred and fear 
towards women is so strong that it pushed a right-wing candidate in the 
Portuguese elections to propose the surgical export of the ovaries as an 
additional sanction for women who abort; this while in the United States 
the legislation on abortion is now balkanized and each state proceeds in 
its own way to restrict it and prevent women from managing their own 
bodies and that is from exercising the most basic of rights.

Woman and beautiful

On the other hand, the feminist movement and women must reflect on the 
slogan that has characterized the movement for a long time. A woman may 
not be beautiful: to realize this you just need to think, not 
necessarily in the order of Meloni, von der Leyen, Metsola, to conclude 
that when women reach top and command positions they are not always 
better than men: the truth is that, just as there are women and women, 
there are men and men, and their class position is not irrelevant, their 
ideas, their life testimony, are not irrelevant to evaluate their 
behaviors, which are always personal and specific, subjective.
Behaviors, ideas and rights are conditioned by one's objective living 
conditions and therefore the priority battle for all women must be that 
of equality, first and foremost wage equality, because all other 
freedoms derive from freedom from need. As proof of this, we remember 
that women's working conditions and wages are significantly lower than 
those of men and that this difference constitutes the watershed that 
separates the two genders from the exercise of rights.
More than changes in customs and mentality which certainly help, more 
than the sentimental education which is certainly necessary, what makes 
the difference are the material conditions and it is no coincidence that 
these are the ones that are difficult to change. This path is certainly 
difficult and arduous in a country like ours which holds one of the 
records of the worst regulatory and salary treatment of women with 
respect to work in developed economy countries, proof of which is that 
the birth rate is affected.

There is little to invent in terms of demographic policies to increase 
the birth rate if we do not prepare social legislation to support women, 
building efficient networks of nursery schools, freeing them from the 
almost exclusive task of caring for the elderly, making them 
economically autonomous and free to assert themselves at work, so as to 
be able to express their personality and their life aspirations in the 
most complete way. It is also for this reason that the demographic 
policies promoted by the right to resolve the
problems of the country are miserably destined to fail. victims of 
inefficiency with regards to the economic and social effects, but also 
due to a culture relating to women which relegates them to a role of 
subordination to the choices of the males of the house, to their needs 
and to the overall chauvinist structure of the social organization .

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/03/17/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-donne/
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