Argentine democracy still has a debt to real equality: the decline in gender policies and the low representation of women and diversities in decision spaces put historical conquests and deepen structural inequalities.
The absence of women and diversities in places where laws and budgets are decided is not naive or harmless: it is a design that ensures nothing changes. For too long the men ruled and legislated in the name of all people, ignoring structural inequalities and leaving gaps that still affect the daily life of millions.
From Grow – Gender and Work we believe that on September 23, National Day of Women’s Political Rights, reminds us that Argentine democracy still has a pending debt: equal equality.
The current setback in gender policies demonstrates it clearly. Key areas and programs were dismantled, reduced budgets and questioned regulations, leaving women and diversities without the tools that allowed access to basic rights, protecting violence or developing autonomy trajectories.
Holding equality requires that the absence of women and a gender perspective in politics is not neutral: it has concrete consequences in the lives of millions. The conquests do not remain alone. Today we see leaders in which men predominate, means that return to give misogynistic voices, budgets that are defined without contemplating the value of the most feminized works – like those of those who take care of people with disabilities, sick and retired – and cuts that directly hit community spaces and the prevention and assistance programs against violence. They are not isolated decisions: they are part of a Backlash politician who despises progress in gender equality and seeks to dismantle everything that was built in that direction.
Although the history of female participation includes milestones such as Law 13,010 of 1947, which granted the female vote, and more recent laws of quota and parity, true representation goes beyond numbers: it is also about transforming the structures of power and the symbolic power that sustains them.
This exclusion pattern is reproduced in other social sectors, such as the media, civil society organizations and also in the private sector. In a context in which the public sector is beaten and goes back in equality policies, from Grow – gender and work we value being able to continue accompanying companies in the construction of diverse leaderships and in the incorporation of equity in decision making. The presence of women and diversities in leadership spaces is an essential condition for any strategy to have a gender perspective and social justice.
Democracy that excludes half of its population from representation is not full democracy: it is a design for nothing to change. Therefore, the defense of women’s political rights cannot be a slogan of the past, but a current flag against contempt and reaction that today threatens to erase them.
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