The Department of Women and Equal Opportunities ended yesterday with the activities under the program of March 8 "International Women's Day" with a panel discussion on reconciling work and family life that took place in the Socio-Cultural Center " Jail "in which over a hundred people.
This roundtable was developed with the aim of creating a space for reflection and exchange of ideas on issues related to reconciliation by involving and encouraging involvement in this space to the different social actors (government, associations, technicians, etc.). as well as the agents of the educational environment by promoting their meeting and dialogue.
A professor at the University of Murcia, Lola Frutos, gave the lecture "The conflict for women between family and work and the director of the Institute of Gerontology and Social Services, Gonzalo Berzosa Zaballos, was on hand to talk about" Reconciliation is Advocate .
Resistances and possibilities to reconcile work and family. "
During the roundtable, Councilwoman Women and Equal Opportunities, Josefa María Sánchez Méndez, thanked the participation of the speakers, the conference attendees and the groups that worked with the same as the Collective of Social Promotion "The Candle 'and the Sociocultural Association of Women Totanera.
The mayor explained that the incorporation of women into the work, the unequal sharing of responsibilities between men and women in the private sphere and the perpetuation of the division of labor by gender, negatively affect equality of opportunity in employment, social balance in the family environment, business productivity and quality of life.
Therefore, as indicated Sánchez Méndez, reconciliation is the key to solving these problems and a very important aspect to change this trend is the awareness and education of equality, shared responsibility and reconciliation from the school environment to change attitudes and paradigms of new generations.
