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The exhibition, which is part of the Murcia City Council's program for the March 8 International Women's Day, can be visited this week at the Puertas de Castilla center.
Tomorrow has been organized a day of reflection and debate to combat the wage gap, which will address both existing detection protocols and measures for their correction.
The Councilor for Social Rights and Development Cooperation, Conchita Ruiz, opened this morning the exhibition 'The Woman of Burkina', which aims to raise awareness of the situation of inequality suffered by mothers and daughters in front of men in each of the stages of life.
The exhibition, which is part of the Murcia City Council's program for the March 8 International Women's Day, will remain during this week at the Puertas de Castilla Municipal Center.
In it you can see through a dozen photographs the situation of women in this country, where power is in the hands of men, who have reserved access to land, natural source and income generator.
From birth, the community shows a predilection for men, while women are given the role of having children and submitting to the will of their husband.
In addition, genital mutilation, which in Africa suffers one in three women, in Burkina Faso is punishable by 6 months in prison.
The exhibition highlights the harshness of life in the villages, where the houses are made of adobe, suffer great droughts and live in a regime of polygamy.
Many families without resources migrate to settlements, approaching the capital, which, as in the case of Boassa, does not have running water.
And it is the women and children who must go to look for her in the wells every day.
They also lack sewer and electricity and only have a precarious dispensary for the 30,000 inhabitants.
Combat the wage gap
On the other hand, the programming developed by the City of Murcia on the occasion of March 8 International Women's Day will focus tomorrow on two events that will take place in the Museum of the City, where a 'Day of reflection and debate for combat the wage gap ', organized with the collaboration of OMEP.
The event will begin at 10 am, with the inauguration by the Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, and the president of OMEP, Manuel Marín.
Next, the territorial director of the Labor Inspection of Murcia, Diego Martinez Rafecas, will deliver a paper entitled 'Actions of the Labor Inspection in the field of equality', which will be followed by a round table on 'Wage gap detection protocols. in the companies', in which the human resources directors of Autobuses LAT and Dalland Hybrid España, Carolina Bastida and Ana Rodríguez, will intervene, respectively.
At 12:30 hours the second round table will begin, in this case, on 'Measures to correct the gender wage gap', in which Ana Jiménez, consultant equality plans and teacher UMCU RSC Chair, Eugenia Pérez, secretary of Social Policy UGT and Juan Miguel López, president of CSIF.
On the other hand, at 12 noon, will take place the visit-workshop 'The Image built', which will remain until Friday.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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