Policy For Gender Equality

Policy for gender equality

The choice to examine the public policies that attack positively in obtaining gender equality is based on the certainty of active role that, as an cornerstone to achieve development, must exercise the State in the formation of societies that pursueEquality, this is a proposal developed by the Observatory of Gender Equality of Latin America and the Caribbean. 

In this sense, public policies are essential instruments to promote change directed towards higher levels of justice, without forgetting to expose the political election by the governments of climbing in the solution of the problem of inequality that covers women. Although in recent times great results have been obtained in this environment, the high tides loaded with inequalities, imbalance and discriminatory actions against women are still present. 

This situation is granted to the power entities have not been transformed so that the differentiations that are imposed in society and that are reflecting in the distinctions of social groups still continue. The implementation of the request for gender equity in policies is an essential condition for progress in the construction of societies with democratic foundations that make it possible to their inhabitants to perform their rights in their entirety and if violated, know and feel safethat they can be claimed as the law dictates and before it. ECLAC has supported that there is an accurate interrelation between equality and social justice, because equality is helped in human dignity and this makes a foundation about the existence of democracy united to social justice, whose nature is carried outHands with rights.

Gender justice is explained as the triumph of equality between men and women taking into account the processes that amend the disadvantages that women lead before men. Women’s empowerment pursues gender equality, in addition to being part of individual development. On the other hand, empowerment is a concept that joins with becoming aware of the responsibility of altering the bonds of power between both sexes both in the public and private sphere. The UN proposed the term as part of the objectives of the millennium development, "to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women", making full confirmation of the increase in use and their understanding is the effort to achieve that goal and meet the goalof equity between both sexes.

Among public policies to promote gender equality are the following, which are a contribution to achieve autonomy in women. 

• Brazil: Law 11340 Maria da Penha (2006). It is a law that recognizes the right that women possess without the violence present in their lives and considers this type of aggression as an attack on women’s law. It makes the state responsible for the protection of women who suffer or have suffered domestic and family violence, regardless of their age, race, religion or sexual orientation. The implementation of this law also influenced the long struggle that María da Penha, a Brazilian lady victim of violence and attempted murder for her husband, which with the support of the center for justice and international law (Cejil) and theLatin American Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CADEM) managed to escape their claws and make a complaint to the same. The law was established in order to make a change in the situation that women lived in Brazil, where between 1998 and 2008, almost 42,000 women were victims of murder that is to say that in an average amount, per day 10 women were deadat the hands of the brutality of a group of men. From the establishment of the law, the Central of Attention to the woman "calls 180" of the federal government until 2014 had had 240,000 complaints of abused women, this shows that the law has been a clear step towards the guarantee of the life of the life of the life of the life ofwomen and their physical and emotional well -being. 
• Uruguay: The policy of fighting gender violence On the other hand is a policy with the same purposes but in different country, in this case, Uruguay, the implanted politics assumes violence against women as an attack on their rightshumans and recognizes the responsibility of the state of offering them protection. 
• Colombia: The policy of access to voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVE). This policy itself, faces an injustice in relation to respecting the essential rights to life, equality, health and above all the reproductive autonomy of women. This policy is a recognition of the essential right of women to have the possibility of making free decisions about their body and well -being, both mental and physical, counting that most of the problems involved having an abortion, such asThe risk of women’s health, to mention an example, will be covered, since it is the responsibility of health entities to guarantee the life and protection of women for this purpose. This policy is a resounding progress to the guarantee of the autonomy of women and gender justice in the public apparatus, to the extent that it allows voluntary access to pregnancy in the three grounds referred to by decriminalization, admits, admitsthat the woman has the right to make decisions about her body. The end of public policy is to promise the possibility of the participation of women in the State Selection Bodies and in the directors of parties and political organizations. The objective of the policy is to guarantee the participation of women in the organs of election of the State and in the directors of political parties and groups. It was understood that if more than half of the population were women, why they should only be a minority that will be part in terms of politics. Could not continue a new state without the figure and voice of the female part.
• Costa Rica: The policy of parity and alternation in the electoral law The electoral policy belonging to Costa Rica is guided to eliminate a social practice of inequality and discrimination that alters the right to total inclusion and equal positions of women in the takingof elections at different ranges in access to popular positions. 
• Chile: Law 20255 (2008), which establishes the pension reform: it is a reform designed for redistributive justice, making pension gaps between women and men, counting that women who work properly are compensated but in muchlower proportion than men. The policies that have been analyzed in the study of this issue have been selected because they have key elements for obtaining gender equality. 

All this analysis was with the same purpose and that is that gender equality reigns in the world because it is not fair that women are devalued by the simple fact of being a woman when it is known that both sexes have great abilities and weaknesses, perhaps not thesame, but they have them, and it is what makes them simply imperfect and equal.

References

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