Spain focusses on equality

The first January took Spain over ordförandeskapet in EU.

May became amazed when Spain's vice premiärminister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega tillkännagav that they choose to prioritize the economic crisis during their half-year that chairman country.

On the other hand became the more astonished over that Spain has valt equality that yet another of your focus questions.

One and other Spanienresenär draws itself to memory's one macholand where the men worked or putoned the sport bars while the women were housewives. What has happened?

Fast development

Facts are that it probably be not something else country in Europe that has had an equal fast development that Spain.

When the dictator Franco died for just over 30 years late got women not to work, open bank account or to submit the country without himself is traveled or husband's conditions.

Today, Spain has a government with the half women, an off the world's few pure jämställdhetsdepartement and an ambitious package of measure against kvinnomisshandel.

- in today's Spain works we concrete with equality and therefore want to we to pursue with us it to EU, says Enrique Viguera Rubio, Spain's Ambassador in Sweden. It acts TV oak loosely about social fairness, but also about economic effectiveness. No modern society can allow itself the luxury to cope with itself without those 50 percents of the population that are constituted of women.

Focus on the pay gap

Equality is a broad matter, but during ordförandeskapet intends Spain in front to focus on the pay gap average Europe's men and women, same conditions both for enterprise and in order to combine jobs, family and spare time.

- we also will do clear markings when it comes to the struggle against kvinnomisshandel, says Enrique Viguera Rubio. It is a global problem that requires global solutions.

On the agenda the nearest half-year stands grundandet of an European center against kvinnomisshandel, proposals about an European alarm number equal 112 - for mishandled women and an agreement that misshandelsoffer has fairly to get same type of protections and measures in all EU countries.

- the objective for this the half-year's ordförandeskap? It is among other thing to design a sun ID law against all shapes of discrimination, says Enrique Viguera Rubio. A team that Sweden la the basis for during sit ordförandeskap.