translated from Spanish: Why is to talk about the approach of gender it important?

according to the ILO, worldwide, by each 10 men who work, only 6 women are employed. According to the report perspectives social and employment in the world (global advance on trends in female employment, 2018), the rate world of participation of women in the labour force continues to be 26.5 percentage points below the rate for men .
In Chile, according to INE (2017) the rate of female labour participation at the national level, increased from 45.3% in 2010 to 48.5% in 2017, however, the gap remained over the – 20 percentage points every year.
In the same year, the rate of femicides at the national level was 0.47, i.e., for every 100,000 women in Chile, 0.47 dies from a femicide, and there were 1.24 frustrated femicides per 100,000 women. In 2017, 38.8% of women between 15 and 49 years of age said to have lived one or more situations of violence by her partner, ex-partner or a family member throughout his life.
Why is to talk about the approach of gender it important? Inequalities between men and women not only become visible in wage gaps, forms of violence, femicide, roles and functions in patterns of breeding, access charges, and a set of social practices that systematically hide and They subalternizan to women, but also on the barriers that hinder the conquests of freedom, autonomy and decision-making power. Such inequalities are the product of relationships and power asymmetries, anchored to speeches and hegemonic imaginaries that make otherness and otherness and the difference a construct in favour of the male, which, in turn, is displayed through various strategies that use of platform or floor psychological and instrumental to the ‘language’.
The male and female (as good and evil, positive and negative, if and do not, etc.) is a strategy of differentiation (dichotomous), a separation, a methodological and conceptual tearing of reality to configure identities and singularities that Let me grasp and shape “object” or “subject” human/a. In the past, to the feminine, was assigned particular behavioural qualities (weak, vulnerable, dependent, emocional-fragil, santa/libertine, witch, etc.), which although obsolete today, social institutions (such as the College or the media social) they tend to play without other objective than the retention of the status quo, male power, falocentrista and Eurocentric, invariably from the colonization – centuries – until the present.
Is it something unique gender of women? The use of gender mainstreaming is not exclusive of the feminist movements, although there have fortunately emerged, i.e., from the strictly feminine, rather it is an approach that aims to be inclusive, open and continuous construction. The need to rethink the everyday, reinvent our social meanings, cultural practices, ways of living, live and develop, requires us to rethink our speeches be, do, and communicate, therefore, deconstruct modes traditional and make a qualitative leap in our abilities to articulate the difference, and through this, dispel the inequalities and injustices rooted to a patriarchal system moth-eaten, expired, based on the Hegelian dialectic of “the master and slave ()” slave) “.”
There is no doubt that the practices and discourses of undermining and invisibilization of women have decreased over time, and that also, are the young people who largely contributed to deconstruct this form of vulnerability (built arbitrarily by macho culture), however, this new generation to be subjugated to the social institutions, are exposed to that if they do not perform internal conceptual and structural changes it will be degraded any possibility of transformation to short, medium and long term, in consequence, a recursive process of perpetuation of the meanings and parent senses that instituted asymmetrical power relations.
What does social transformation then imply? “Perhaps it is relevant to point out that necessary rupture, transformation and deconstruction of the patriarchal imagery, based on a process of resignification collective, not should be reduced only to”greater empathy of otherness”,”to a revaluation of women”or” reinvent the division of labor”. We talk about transformations involving social aspects (legales-derechos, economic, political, cultural) and also individual aspects (language, looks, attitudes, behaviors, speeches) whose pregnancy conditions challenge an opening to the dialogue, which should lead to new discursive trajectories and expressed in equalities of opportunity, access, free expression, decision, among others, as they are to conquer freedom, autonomy and charge those meanings, stereotypes, labels, tags, instituted as truths and implanted in the collective unconscious as constituent parts of our identity.
Even though the efforts of public institutions are significant in that direction, it is society itself that must – at home, work, the street – assume a leadership role. These changes may begin when we are able to think about our own structures and systems of thought, uses of language, humor, etc. You are willing to change?

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