The reasons why women will take the street again on 8M

Macho violence, precariousness, the slab of care, lack of security and freedom in the experience of sexuality and pleasure and the wage and pension gap will star in the protests of International Women's Day, in which will again denounce that inequality looms severely over half of the population.

The Spanish feminist movement has articulated the manifestations of the 8M of 2020 around four main axes of vindication: violence, bodies, borders and economy. Special emphasis will be placed on the intersectional discrimination suffered by migrant, racialized, poor women and those who belong to the LGTBI collective, especially trans.

"Our lives continue to be marked by inequalities, by sexist violence, by precariousness, by cisheteronorma, by exclusion processes derived from our jobs, by the expulsion of our homes, by racism and non-co-responsibility of men or of the State in care work ", summarizes the 8M Commission of Madrid.

Here are some of the reasons that will lead women - and men - to demonstrate in the different Spanish cities and towns next Sunday:

- Gender violence: since 2003, 1,046 women have been killed by their partners or ex-partners. In the last six years, 286 children have been orphaned as a result of these crimes and 35 children have been killed by their parents or their mothers' partners.

Since the comprehensive law against gender violence exists, more than 1.4 million women have reported abuse.

According to the CIS, seven out of ten Spaniards believe that more needs to be done in the fight against sexist violence.

- Sexual violence: In 2019 15,338 sexual crimes were reported, 42 per day, and 1,878 rapes, which means that a woman reports a sexual assault every five hours in Spain. On Tuesday, the Government will approve in the Ministerial Council the decree of the law on sexual freedom and against sexual violence, one of the main demands of the feminist movement.

Feminism also calls for an end to trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation suffered by women and girls and requires greater training and gender perspective in justice, law enforcement, social and health services, as well as in the teaching staff.

Likewise, it requires paying special attention and protection to women with disabilities or mental illnesses, migrants and asylum seekers, who, when belonging to vulnerable groups, suffer more violence.

- Control sexual and reproductive life, guarantee of the right to involuntarily terminate pregnancy.

- Free expression of sexuality, identity and / or gender expression.

- Promotion of equal education. Creation of an affectionate-sex subject to end discrimination from childhood and unequal relationships.

- Defense of the rights of migrant women. Defense of the rights of women caregivers and domestic workers. Defense of the rights of rural women.

- End job insecurity. The wage gap is 22% in Spain and that of pensions rises to 34%. The unemployment rate is higher among them, as is the temporary employment.

- Requirement of co-responsibility, both of men and of the State. Women are the ones who mostly support care tasks: UGT denounces that domestic and care work is a "tangible slavery" that, if paid, would account for 30% of the country's jobs and 15% of GDP .

90% of people who leave their job for the care of a dependent family member are women, the same figure that requests leave for family care. 95% of people employed part time for family care are also women.

- End of the dictatorship of the aesthetic canon, defense of diversity.

- Requirement of a more sustainable and respectful consumption model with the planet.