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Attending the meeting more than 120 directors of the municipal women's centers, which have become useful spaces for staff and promoting labor market integration

The Mayor invited women's organizations to submit suggestions to the Municipal Plan for Equal Opportunities between Men and Women who prepares the City Council to "enrich and improve"

The Mayor.

Miguel Angel House, has praised the work done this morning through the local women's centers to promote gender equality.

Some 120 members of these associations have heard the intervention of House, which opened the day training organized by the Department of Social Welfare, Gender Equality Policies and Citizenship aimed at the management teams of associations and women's centers in the municipality and in which also featured Maria del Carmen Pelegrin, municipal charge of this area.

The workshop is aimed at members of women's centers in the municipality of Murcia and try to raise and train their management teams to develop the principle of gender equality in all activities planned and conducted in these centers.

At the same time, the meeting aims to strengthen partnerships, with their activities and projects, developing and promoting gender equality.

In recent years, the City of Murcia has promoted and developed measures in order to overcome obstacles and enable equal opportunities between genders.

In these actions to promote women's associations and training developed by the city of Murcia occupies a vital role in the municipal women's centers, which has provided an ideal space for personal promotion and entry into the labor market.

At present, the goals that arise to achieve through the implementation of the Equal Opportunities Policy are:

Overcoming gender roles;

Break the stereotypes that keep situations of discrimination;

Eliminate any possibility of violence against women to which it is necessary that the actions of the Local Government incorporating the concept of gender equality in all policies and municipal actions.

In this light we have developed a draft Municipal Plan for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men: 2009 - 2011 the City of Murcia, which the Mayor hopes to get the initiatives and suggestions of the members of the centers of women " enrich and improve it. "

The plan is proposed as a tool and as a strategy from which to incorporate a gender perspective in all planning processes and times, action and evaluation to guarantee municipal equity for women and men can exercise their rights of equal citizenship .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia