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Showing posts with label role of women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label role of women. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Mobility in Málaga



The stay of our European partners came to its end some days ago. For a week, Romanian and Polish students and teachers were at our school in order to develop different workshops and activities. On their arrival, they visited our facilities and every day they had the chance to taste scrumptious breakfasts prepared and served by our students from the Vocational Course in Catering Services.
Throughout the week, the students carried out activities concerning the role of women in our society (astounding  female scientists, writers, philosophers and artists) as well as workshops focused on analyzing equality between men and women and some other ones whose main aim was to detect sexist behaviours.
Finally, we all could enjoy a visit to “Principia”, a science Museum, a guided visit in the city center and a day trip to see Granada and its spectacular landmark, La Alhambra.
An amazing week full of interactive activities and debates in which our students worked in collaboration and shared information, ideas, opinions and emotions; a very enriching experience that we are sure we will never forget. :)

Below, the terrific video that our European volunteer Marion Dombey made on our learning, teaching and training activites in Málaga.

(By Marion Dombey)

Background music:
 - https://www.jamendo.com/track/1227553/still-hope

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The gender pay gap situation in UE


The gender pay gap is defined as the relative difference in the average gross earnings of women and men within the economy as a whole.
There are considerable differences between EU countries, with the gender pay gap ranging from less than 8% in Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia to more than 20% in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia and United Kingdom.

Every year the Commission marks the European Equal Pay Day with Europe-wide information activities to reach out to Member States on the link between pay, earnings and pension entitlements in old age. European Equal Pay Day draws attention to the size and general inertia of the gender pay gap, as well as its underlying causes.

Why the European Equal Pay Day is in November?

The gender pay gap in the EU still averages around 16%. The European Equal Pay Day date is calculated on this Eurostat figure and symbolizes when women across the EU would stop earning for the rest of the year in comparison to men.

In class, we discuss about “factors that contribute to the gender pay gap” and “what students have to say about gender stereotypes”(Is it acceptable for men to cry?, is the most important role of a women  to take care of her home and family? etc).
“Equality between men and women is one of the fundamental values of the European Union, but this day reminds us that it is not one of its fundamental realities. The pay gap between women and men is already unfair, unjustified and unacceptable in the short term. But in the long term, it accumulates throughout a woman’s career and results in an even more significant pension gap, with women’s pensions 39% lower than men’s.”


(Jenny, one of the volunteers at school taking part in the activity)

Monday, April 1, 2019

Women in magazines


In this activity, the students went through some magazines to see what kinds of women appear in them. What do they look like? What are they like? Are they real?
They were talking about perfect women without a single fat in their bodies; women that don't exist in real life!



Friday, March 29, 2019

We are not dumb Barbie dolls

 

This performace took place in the corridor during the mobility in Málaga. The idea was to reflect on  the message dolls convey: "Women are just valuable because of their physical appearance and not because of what they do" associated with images of beautiful and perfect women. The main aim of this activity is to denounce these superficial stereotypes that are internalized by girls since they are little and to show that  other different kinds of dolls that think, create, imagine and make great things must be promoted. That's why we could see amazing women such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Wolf, Helen Keller and Rosa de Luxemburg into the Barbie boxes. We wanted everyone to be surprised when pressing the button: famous quotations by astounding women.













Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Twilight: a sexist film

One of the first activities we started with during the mobility in Málaga. It consisted of watching Twilight and stopping it every time we detected some kind of sexism. 
The main character has a crush on the "bad guy" and becomes obsessed with him. Does she need anyone to be "a complete woman"?.  A film full of chichés and stereoptypes that we must break if we want men and women to be equal.
An interesting activity that generated a lot of discussion.