SABINA COVO: more women into government
3/10/12
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meets in the Capitol with Senator John Kerry, D-Mass. (right) and Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
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An estimated 17% of the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are women. This means that we have a vast majority of men in the U.S. legislative branch decision makers, in many cases, crucial issues of women, as their health , the rights of their body, their salaries, their integrity as mothers, and benefits as individuals. Is it because this passing episodes in which there are legislators who come up with "stories" like asking the woman to undergo an ultrasound mandatory before deciding to have a child or not, no matter what the reason for the decision to take? ¿Mechanical laws for real women?Incredible but not impossible.
Women and men are different, physically different, but the rights of both must be equal. The body structure of women, which makes it a little weak in strength, but a good joke well told me this week said that women are weak only when we have freshly painted nails. For if a man takes Viagra every time aroused, and regulate anyone asks why a woman should not be able to take birth control when you need them?
If we consider that according to the census there are 2% more women than men in the U.S., there is great disparity in government. In contrast, this week an article appeared in a Spanish newspaper that shows that in countries with high rates of violence against women in Latin America, women rule 40% of the population. It has always been labeled a lot more macho to Latin Americans.
Could it be that the working conditions for women in the United States are not optimal for positions of power to exercise comfortably, and be mothers and wives? U.S. companies do not, by law, maternity leave with pay. Are 90 days without payment to those who have been employed over 12 months. Like, for example, Zambia and Ghana. Many women find it a great emotional stress of leaving a baby with a sitter or months at a center of attention, and rightly so. The concept of working at home is a sign of risk for many employers. Latin America remained the same in most countries pay part of motherhood, many women turn to their mothers, sisters, cousins or neighbors to help with raising their children. "There are family support," he said a woman who prefers to remain anonymous, in a political office in Latin America.
Developed countries like the United States, corporate taxes and money on their governments such as France, women offer their 4 months maternity pay, benefits and discounts up to have nannies. Just as there is the book French Women do not get fat , there should be the book French women can raise their children comfortably . Equally basic is the concept. Respect, benefits, time and self-esteem go hand in hand. In England, according to the magazine Forbes , 90% of the salary of a woman has just given birth is given for one year to be with his son. In Germany give 14 weeks paid, and so the list could go on.
On this International Women's Week, many women do not want gifts, flowers or congratulations. They want respect, you can decide what to do with your body, and to develop as professional women, mothers and wives.
And for this you need the conditions. More women in Congress who understand what being a woman and did not appear to be perfect as Barbie, because it hides the need behind appearances. We want more Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman or more, or Gabrielle Giffords, more Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, or Elizabeth Warrens, women of flesh and bone.
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