The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, assured this Monday that “the most just cause of our time is the feminist cause” and has warned that progress in equality cannot be taken for granted because “the risk of regression is real” as is being seen in established and consolidated democracies.
In his speech at the ‘Women’s turn to reshape the future’ event of the GWL Voices Dialogue, the head of the Executive called to defend progress “more strongly than ever.”
He also stressed that today it is not acceptable that the injustice caused by the lack of equality between women and men persists for any longer and he recalled the “enormous waste of talent and potential that it represents.”
He has thus referred to studies by international organizations that indicate that closing the gender gap would increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by more than 20 percent.
The President of the Government has asked himself where we would be and what our history would be if women had participated much earlier in political decisions and has supported the initiative for there to be a system of gender alternation in the election of the presidency of the General Assembly of United Nations.
“It is time for us to have a Secretary General of the United Nations, there can be no more excuses. It is time,” said Sánchez, who highlighted that Spain “has been leading by example for years” as shown by the fact that today the European Bank of Inversiones “finally” has a woman at the helm, Nadia Calviño, until a few days ago vice president of her cabinet.
For the President of the Government, the presence of women in multilateral organizations is necessary because it fosters understanding of global problems, improves the quality of decision-making and leads to more lasting agreements.
Sánchez has also referred to Spain as a leading country in terms of equality, which is now the third major economy in the world that is closest to closing the gender gap.
“Closing it definitively is an obligation,” remarked the president, who has given the law of equal representation in the decision-making centers of political but also economic power as an example of the Government’s work.
