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Women: 66.1% of country’s technical
and professional force
THIS
March 8, International Women’s Day, Cuba can show
the world achievements like women’s wide
participation in all the spheres of political,
economic, cultural and social life, Yolanda Ferrer
Gómez, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban
Women, informed Granma daily.
To
cite just some examples, those achievements can be
appreciated in that women are 46% of the work force
in the public sector: 66.1% in the occupational
category of technicians and professionals, 48.9% of
researchers, 63.3% of university graduates, 56% of
doctors and 52.3% of health personnel on
internationalist missions; 71% of legal
professionals; and 36% of deputies in the National
Assembly.
Gender equality has been a prioritized objective
since 1959 and to that end policies and programs
aimed at women’s advance have been a constant to
enable them to fully exercise their rights in the
socialist society that we are building.
“We
are aware that we have important challenges ahead
and that the achievements are starting points for
advancing toward new goals. It is about fighting to
eradicate all vestiges of discrimination, a battle
that, as our president said, must be waged by
society in general, headed by our (Communist) Party
and in which the Federation of Cuban Women is a
decisive factor.
“Intelligence, pro-active energy and the
revolutionary spirit of Cuban women have been put to
the test throughout these 48 years in which we have
stood up to the economic blockade, aggressions of
all kind from the U.S. government, a fight in which
we have emerged victorious and will continue winning
alongside the rest of the people,” she emphasized.
Translated by Granma International
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