The project ‘Lleida, land of transformative women’ has started its deployment by Ponent this Friday. It has been done in the Palau d’Anglesola, in the Pla d’Urgell (Lleida) with the forecast that before the summer it will reach a dozen municipalities in the six counties that make up the vegería.
The sports hall hosted the first day of the ‘Lleida, land of transformative women’ project, 25 women from the municipality and the rest of Pla d’Urgell have joined the project.
Those responsible for the initiative have documented their experiences and have photographed the protagonists inside a portable dome-shaped structure, which serves as a photographic studio.
The day included a women’s meeting in which specific vital and professional projects were presented and the feminist transformation in rural Lleida was discussed, the need to overcome the “agropatriarchy” that still prevails and the inequalities and stigmas suffered by women in rural areas.
The meeting was attended by some of the 12 “head” women of the ‘Lleida, land of transformative women’ project, who are those who joined since its launch in September.
The Minister of Igualtat i Feminismes, Tània Verge, also participated, stating that while “patriarchal society makes women invisible”, the initiative gives them a voice and helps “break stereotypes, which continue to weigh heavily in rural areas”.
For her part, the Government delegate in Lleida, Montse Bergés, explained that the project wants to “make known the transforming women of the rural space of the veguería who, with their daily action, propose and generate changes in the environment.”
The objective, he noted, is to “generate a work space in the form of a shared agenda” between transformative women in the rural world, with their projects and personal stories, and the Government, which allows “to share and enrich the projection of those projects to overcome agropatriarchy, break with double discrimination due to being “village women” and give visibility to rural women beyond the primary sector.
From now on and during the first months of 2024, the project will visit other municipalities in the six regions of Ponent, with the format of conferences like the one held at the Palau d’Anglesola. The idea is to have a stop in two municipalities in each region.
‘Lleida, land of transformative women’ has been promoted by the Government Delegation in Lleida, with the support of the Departments of Equality and Feminism and Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, and is part of the challenges and proposals established by the Agenda Rural Catalonia and in the Government’s priority objective of promoting transversal feminist transformation in all areas.
