‘Women Work 2 to 3 Hours More Than Men’

From Venezuela, Marita Seara Fernández, a member of the collective Mujeres Construyendo [es] (Women Building), an online community that aims to end the digital gap among women, took part in the “First International Women Bloggers Conference” [es] in Mexico on October 2013. She notes that women barely represent 25 percent of the Spanish-speaking blogsophere and that this kind of event are still “uncommon” among them, as they need to express freely and uncensored and without limits.

Fernández writes [es]:

Hay muchísimas voces femeninas en el mundo, sobre todo en países donde la represión, discriminación y desigualdad es parte de su día a día. ¿Pero qué hay de blogs escritos por mujeres latinoamericanas?, ¿de voces que presenten una realidad en sus comunidades o reflejen el empoderamiento y el liderazgo que muchas representan?. Hay pocas.

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Si comenzamos con que el acceso igualitario a internet es un derecho, para disminuir esta brecha es esencial el cambio o implantación de nuevas políticas públicas que van desde la alfabetización y la educación desde edades tempranas hasta la ayuda en el manejo y redistribución del tiempo de las mujeres, de manera así que puedan acceder al aprendizaje de estos recursos.

There are many female voices in the world, mostly in countries where repression, discrimination and inequality are part of their daily lives. But what about blogs written by Latin American women? Voices that present a reality for their communities or reflect the empowerment and leadership that many of them represent? There are few of them.

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If we start by saying that equal access to Internet is a right, to shorten this gap what is fundamental is change or new public policies from literacy and education from very young ages to helping with the management and redistribution of women's time, so they can have access to learning about those resources.

Among other things, she notes that “women work 2 to 3 hours more than men, “that's why they don't have the necessary time to learn how to use digital resorces“. You can read more on her post [es].

This post was part of the fifth #LunesDeBlogsGV [Mopnday of blogs] on June 2, 2014.

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