The Salary Gap in Spain Could Take More Than a Hundred Years to Close
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FREE COPY SPORT THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Making great strides on the Official market leader Audited by PGD/OJD tennis scene March 8th to 14th 2019 www.surinenglish.com Young local star Alejandro Davidovich has leapt 300 News 2 Health & Beauty 41 Comment 20 Sport 47 places in the rankings in Lifestyle 22 My Home 53 What To Do 34 Classified 57 just 14 months as a pro P47 in English Food & Drink 39 Time Out 62 The salary gap in Spain could take more than a hundred years to close Today, 8 March, as the world cele- ries could take another century to around 5,000 euros in an average The average woman would have to brates International Women’s Day, achieve. A law brought in to penal- annual salary. calls for equality are as loud as they ise discrimination in the workplace Rallies to mark International work ten years more than a man to were decades ago. Opportunities for in Spain in 2007 has so far shown Women’s Day have been organised women may have improved in re- negligible results. In 2016 men in major cities across Spain. Thou- earn the same amount, say figures cent years but figures reveal that in earned an average of 28% per cent sands are expected to march in Spain total equality in terms of sala- more than women, a difference of Malaga city centre from 7pm. P4 International Women’s Day - a cross section of women from the Forgotten women writers of Malaga: Jane Bowles and Gamel Woolsey, local community give their views on equality, past and present P2&3 among others, were ignored in the shadow of their husbands P22&23 THE POMPIDOU OPENS UP TO MATISSE The French artist is at the centre of the Malaga museum’s biggest show yet P34 One of the works at the new exhibition in the Pompidou. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ Countdown to possible Father gets two years for Brexit: British Consulate killing four-year-old son advises UK residents in who was not strapped into Spain to keep up to date baby seat when the car via their website and crashed speeding on the Facebook P14 motorway in Malaga P8 22222222 March 8th to 14th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Sharing in the spirit of women’s day Costa del Sol business owners, workers, students and pensioners share their views on equality MALAGA. Speaking to a wide range heard and movements such as #Me- rience with a male boss or colleague, For now, however, most women of women in Malaga and on the Costa Too will still be needed. or someone they considered a friend agree that there is still a need to raise del Sol, be they Spanish or from an- Some don’t feel that they have per- or even family member. awareness of inappropriate conduct other country, in their 20s or their sonally been victimised for being a Incidents that were brushed off as and differences in salaries and condi- 70s, one thing they all agree on is that woman while others have had direct “banter” in the 1970s would almost tions, not just on 8 March but every JENNIE RACHEL while attitudes towards gender equal- experience of sexist work colleagues definitely either not happen or end day of the year. RHODES HAYNES ity have changed in their lifetimes, or differences in pay. Most, however up at a tribunal nowadays, although With general, local and European [email protected] there is still a long way to go. Until ‘trivial’ the incident, could add the younger women say they continue elections coming up in spring, this [email protected] there is total equality, expressions #MeToo hashtag to an, at best un- to be asked if they are married dur- year’s Women’s Day events in Anda- such as “glass ceiling” will still be comfortable or embarrassing, expe- ing job interviews. lucía and the rest of Spain have gained Tricia Gabbitas Aprile Winterstein Owner Patricia Welzenbach Retired /manager, Inmobiliaria REINES Student “A boss wanted a “It should be made “I think every peck on the lips” easier for companies woman should to hire young women” be a feminist” Seventy-year-old Tricia Gabbi- tas explains that she has been After running businesses in Twenty-two-year-old Ger- the victim of direct sexism in Malaga for 18 years, and before man Erasmus student, Patri- the workplace. When she once that in Granada, Aprile Winter- cia Welzenbach believes that queried why a less qualified stein believes that the law should more rules need to be put in male colleague was earning be changed to prevent discrimi- place to stop inequalities be- more than her, her boss’s reply nation against young women in a fore they have the chance to was, “Well he’s a man and he recruitment process. “The state develop. She agrees that atti- has bills to pay”. Needless to covers maternity leave but if a tudes towards equality have say, Tricia was “furious”. She woman has to take time off dur- changed, but we are cer- also had a male boss in the ing pregnancy, companies have tainly not out of the dark 1970s who seemed to think it to pay their salary,” she explains, yet. “I think every woman Katie Alexandra Hallybone was ok to get a “peck on the something small companies, should be a feminist,” she ex- Deputy Mayor, Macharaviaya lips” from one of his female which also have to pay for a re- plains, adding that in order colleagues. While Tricia agrees placement, cannot afford. Aprile, for attitudes to truly shift, “The government it was sexist, she says she originally from Canada, says that “should be a celebration of an understanding of what must make strict wouldn’t describe it as assault she supports the feminist move- women”, not a reason to go on feminism really needs to be and called it “banter” at the ment as it was when it started strike. As a professional in the attained. “All we want is to laws on equal rights” time. She adds, “We ladies and believes in equality, but that real estate industry, Aprile says be given equal opportunities were strong enough and wise feminism in Spain has been that women have gained visibil- and rights.” For 35-year-old Katie, who enough to ignore it.” taken to a political level that she ity and are often recommended. has lived in Spain since she finds hard to understand. Inter- “People now say, she’s a woman was a child, the older genera- national Women’s Day, she says, so she must be good.” tion in this country finds it harder to accept the idea of equality. While she does Pili Franco Language student & shouldn’t have to in order to get a think that lot of progress has Flamenco dancer job. She says that while she been made towards achiev- doesn’t feel she has personally ing greater equality between “#MeToo exposes experienced sexism in the work- the sexes, she says there is place she has questioned why, in still a lot to do. To tackle this, one of society’s interviews, she has been asked she says, the government great evils” whether she is married, “must make strict laws so something that in theory that we have equal rights” should not be asked at and that it is “essential that Thirty-two-year-old Pili any stage during a job more education on this sub- Franco says she believes selection process. “I ject is taught in schools”. She the #MeToo movement know men who have says we must change society is important to expose never been asked that “for our children’s future” so people who have used question and women that they “don’t go through their power to force peo- who have been asked it what we have gone through”. ple to do something they a lot,” she says. March 8th to 14th 2019 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Nolwenn Gaudin Translator but some women are also guilty Maddie Hjort of this - will keep being re- Owner, Sunset Andalucía Real “Sexism is still very ported and brought to justice,” Estate she says. “It’s had an impact on a distinct political edge. present” society - women are not as “A woman’s attitude The rise of the far right across scared to come forward and the is about how she Europe, whose policies often in- Thirty-five-year-old French resi- cases are not dismissed any- clude a return to traditional fam- dent in Malaga, Nolwenn more.” presents herself” ily roles, and the arrival of the Vox Gaudin, says she feels that More awareness, more re- party in the Andalusian govern- generally, sexism is less ports of experiences For Maddie Hjort, 48, a ment, have prompted new slogans accepted than it used like the #MeToo woman’s attitude is all about this year. Meanwhile the Conser- to be, but she adds movement and more how she presents herself. The vative Partido Popular has said that “it is still very systematic reports of biggest difference she sees be- that it will not be taking part in present”. She says that sexual assault and tween women in Spain and her the rallies, saying they has been the #MeToo move- more education, spe- native Denmark is that Danish “politicised” by the left. ment is a big step for- cifically in schools and women tend to just dress up ward. “I hope that abusive about consent are for a special occasion whereas behaviours - men principally, needed, Nolwenn says.