Advances and setbacks
While in the streets and the media circulated speeches for and against the recognition of equal rights; in work spaces, the people of the community used strategies to go unnoticed and not receive any type of retaliation for being considered foreign to sex-affective norms.
Since Grow, Gender and Workwe relieve daily that this type of invisibility still persists and that stereotypes around sex-gender diversity seem not find a way out in our societies. We observe, for example, lack of knowledge about the history of the group and its problemsnegative representations around the inclusion of people transand jokes and comments homo-haters.
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In the same sense, the educational spheres continue registering the discrimination and the bullying as one of the most latent problems in adolescents. According to the report on school bullying in Argentina by the NGO Capicua (2014), among the main causes of bullying are discrimination based on physical characteristicsfollowed by questions of sexual diversity and by condition migrant.
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Old problems, new strategies
Rights are ephemeral and we must continue to be in alert constant in the face of new hate speech that emerges. At Grow, Gender and Work, we understand that the human rights framework is a resource that mark the limits but do not build consensus.
The equal marriage law was the turning point for a series of new historical reparations to be conquered. However, we still see, for example, that the inclusion of people transvestites It remains a challenge immense for employing organizations.
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So we keep asking ourselves: How many more decades do we need for the world of work to reflect the society we are building? To achieve this, it is essential to find alliances strategies that put at the center of the agenda the problem of discriminationthe pathologization and the stigmatizationand encourage the people who make up the organizations to commit to the transformation.
Every right opens the door to a new onesame-sex marriage legalize ties, the gender identity law legalizes identity…but it is not enough. The worked It is a fundamental right for people to access a dignified life and anchored in a framework of health promotion and well-being in all its forms.
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By Cristian Treves, methodological reference for training at Grow, Gender and Work.-
Source: Ambito
