Why do we stop? | Filo News

Although this International Women’s Strike is to raise awareness about the amount of unpaid work and gender injustices regarding the labor market, this 8M summons hundreds of thousands of other demands. From Filo we consider that stopping is a privilege and from the gender area created and organized by its own workers, we decided to use it to make visible the structural inequality in which we live. Every 30 hours a man kills a woman because of her gender and the pay gap continues to be unfair. Women work more and earn 23% less globally. Why do we claim that the work is greater? Because in addition to demanding more, this system continues to feminize the tasks of care and the home. Women are in charge of the children, the house and the care of the elderly. The classic phrase of the feminist philosopher Silvia Federici “What they call love is unpaid work” is held as never before on dates like this. And while feminist movements manage to change the order of history, sexism and the perpetuity of gender roles are still found and reproduced almost intact in our culture. On the other hand, if we talk about structural inequality within the labor market, we cannot forget that being a white middle-class woman is not the same as being a poor lower-class woman. Nor is being black the same as not being black or being trans or non-binary. We understand that intersectionality is fundamental when communicating. This year, in addition to all the issues mentioned, sexual violence is under the microscope. Repeated and gang rapes occupy a place on the media and social agenda as a result of what happened in Palermo on Sunday, February 27. And although anger is always one of the engines of these demonstrations, after a pandemic that hit mainly women and dissidents, we took to the streets en masse and with accumulated anger. The focus today more than ever is on the cisgender and heterosexual men who are the ones who commit these crimes and abuses repeated by our gender condition. What are they doing to change things? Why does no one recognize themselves as an abuser but all of us to a greater or lesser extent live some kind of abuse? All these questions are repeated to exhaustion in social networks and from Filo it seems important not only to highlight them but also to deepen them. The coverage of this 8M is special. Special because we are on the street again, but also because the fatigue and boredom are enormous. The new paradigms of equality move a whole old structure in a world in which today we are part and must adapt to our desires, dreams and freedoms. For all that and much more is that the workers of Filo.news stopped and marched.  

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