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Murcia change, through the councilor Margarita Guerrero, ask the City Council in the plenary next Thursday to require the Autonomous Community compliance with the motion approved at the Regional Assembly in November 2015 for the restitution of the Institute for Women.

The aforementioned motion, presented by the Podemos parliamentary group and that went ahead despite the vote against the Popular Party, called for the recovery of the Institute, eliminated by the regional government in 2010 under the mandate of Ramón Luis Valcárcel, after eight years in functioning.

Guerrero has recalled the responsibility of public administrations in the fight for real equality between men and women, especially in a community such as the Region of Murcia, leading the victims of gender violence according to data from the Observatory against Domestic Violence and Gender of the General Council of the Judiciary.

To this, has added the fact that in Murcia women charge 25.7 percent less than men (data from the report "Wage gap and glass ceiling", prepared by tax experts) and that 38.6 percent One hundred of the Murcians of working age are at risk of exclusion or poverty, according to an analysis by the Adecco Foundation in collaboration with companies based on the AROPE report.

"Society demands concrete actions to tackle all the inequalities that we live on a daily basis and the Administrations, for their part, can not remain impassive in this context of discrimination and violence against women," added Guerrero, who hopes that more municipalities will join. of the Region to this request, so that the agreements of the motion are complied with.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia