The future Ministry of Women and Gender Equity of Chile will have its offices in La Moneda (presidential headquarters), from where will try to mainstream the fight for equalityinformed the cabinet of the elected president, Gabriel Boric, on Tuesday.
“From there obviously (it) is going to work side by side with all the ministries of the political committee to be able to conduct this government with a gender perspectiveor”, announced the future spokeswoman, Camila Vallejo.
The announcement was made on the occasion of International Women’s Day and just four days before the president takes office and head the first cabinet with more women than men on the continent (14 vs. 10).
The person who will have the most power within the future cabinet will be the independent doctor Izkia Siches, the first woman to hold the position of Minister of the Interior in Chile.
Another of the great novelties of the future Executive is the inclusion of the Ministry of Womentogether with the Interior, the Treasury, the spokesperson and the General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres), in the so-called Political Committee.
The entry into the hard core of the cabinet was communicated at the beginning of January and interpreted as a powerful signal to feminist collectivescrucial in Boric’s victory against far-right José Antonio Kast.
“Our gender agenda is not only for women, but it is for men and women, and sexual diversities, it is for all the peopleVallejo added.
The future Minister for Women, Antonia Orellana, indicated for her part that one of the first actions that they will carry out as of March 11 It will be to give urgency in the parliamentary process to the project for the right to a life free of violence.
“The women and girls of Chile they cannot continue to hope that we can have a comprehensive instrument against violence against women“, he claimed.
In a message to men, Boric last week asked “take feminism seriously” because “it is not a banality or a postmodern response to identity demands”.
According to the former student leader, who He will become the youngest president in Chilean history at just 36 years old, their wish is that at the end of their mandate they have managed to “collaborate with the cultural change that the feminist movement has promoted.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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