All days we should face this practices, the street sexual “stalking” it’s a thing that always has existed and only recently has become very important to the people and the media, but the chauvinistic actions happens at home, at school, even in Congress where it has always understood the feminine as lower, weak or just bad.
As a few examples, in Chile the
participation of women in the working market it’s extremely low in comparison
with the men’s participation: 41,9% vs
70,7% respectively. A great percentage of women plays unpaid works, the salary
is low when they’re paid and fewer opportunities to get jobs because the fact
of being a woman involves losses for the companies because of the pregnancy
issues or women diseases, and even the health plans are governed by the same
ordinances. In our university we could see these episodes too, when teachers
make offensive comments to women, they harass them or by the simple fact that
some careers are male-dominated.
In summary, and without forgetting
the advances in the field, the struggle for equality rights emplaced us to take
part of this to make real changes in a country where the chauvinistic behaviors
seem to be so naturals that go unnoticed and have become a part of our culture,
not only affecting women but also men, imposing to us all practices by sex
regardless individual decisions and that undervaluing to a genre historically
despised.
