The Board of Trustees of the Valencia Activa Foundation – the entity in charge of promoting employment, training and entrepreneurship among unemployed people in the city of Valencia – has decided to modify the founding purposes of its statutes. The official explanation: “to better adapt them to the Spanish Constitution.” Thus, the second deputy mayor and Councilor for Employment, Juanma Badenas (from Vox), explained that the founding objectives have been changed to “de-ideologize the statutes.”
However, and one day before the celebration of 8-M, working women’s day, the PSPV has not liked this change since the word woman has been dispensed with, to which the foundation’s purposes dedicated a special section to highlight the need to “promote and facilitate equal opportunities for women’s access to the labor market.” Vox has chosen to replace women with people.
A significant change that, as justified in the proposal, “responds to the need for equal opportunities in access to the labor market to be extended to all people and groups with greater integration difficulties, regardless of their condition, race , age or sex”. Badenas confirmed it: “Active employment policies will be promoted to improve the insertion of all groups in society, without discrimination based on sex, race, religion or ideology.”
A justification that did not convince the PSPV. Sandra Gómez described it as “shameful” that on the eve of the commemoration of 8M, a day in which women’s equality is claimed, especially in the workplace, the Government of María José Catalá “erases the objective need that we have to promote equality for women in the world of work.”
Goméz regretted that Catalá has eliminated one of the main objectives of the Foundation, which is “precisely to help women have the same rights, both of access and promotion and stabilization in our jobs.”
