Next Friday, November 5, the Women’s Assembly of the Pensioner Movement of Euskal Herria will be held in Bilbao, under the slogan “For the Defense of Our Rights.”
The Women of the Pensioner Movement of Euskal Herria consider the discrimination suffered by women in pensions “inadmissible” and denounce a gender gap, which amounts to 648 euros in the Basque Country.
Next Friday, November 5, the Women’s Assembly of the Pensioner Movement of Euskal Herria will be held in Bilbao, under the slogan “For the Defense of Our Rights”, to vindicate their specific needs as women and their role within the Pensioners Movement.
The call for Friday in the building La Bolsa It will feature different interventions by women from the Euskal Herria Pensioner Movement (MPEH), with a debate and presentations on the journey of women in the MPEH, the gender gap and the widow’s pension.
Regarding the latter, they denounce that, 97 680 women who receive a widow’s pension, 25% receive less than 700 euros, something to which they give special importance because most fall on women.
According to the representative of Gipuzkoa Itziar Usandizaga “We are many women leading this movement.”
A movement that has led to this assembly that has clarified the Biscayan Andrea Nail, “is the prelude” of the demonstration at the state level of November 13.
In view of the negotiation of the pensions of the Government of Spain, they claim that, if the count of years worked is extended from 25 to 35 as planned, it will especially affect women, because they have been “forced to stop working to dedicate themselves to care “.
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