Africa-Press – Angola. Education and culture are key elements for solving women’s problems, fundamentally, in combating stereotypes and prejudices based on gender.
The thesis was defended by the specialist Elsa Barber, when she spoke, on Wednesday, on the theme “The Angolan woman and her main conquests”, addressed in the Maka space on Wednesday, at the Angolan Writers Union, in the context of March/ Woman.
According to the lecturer, for gender equity, the focus should not be channeled on women, but on changing social systems, which do not allow them to capitalize on their potential, in favor of the common good.
In the country, he said, socio-demographic indicators demonstrate that women have considerable weight as a potentially active and productive force in the country.
He recalled that this fringe corresponds to 52% of the population, and more than half is economically active.
He referred that, despite the long path that still has to be taken to effectively satisfy the desires of women and girls, the State has created laws for their continuous emancipation, allowing them to occupy prominent positions at the level of the legislative, executive and judicial.
Elsa Barber illustrated that at the level of law, 31% of the workforce are women, in diplomacy 40%, while in parliament 37% of the seats are occupied by women.
For him, there is an urgent need, in the arts, for women to be integrated into networks of relationships through which they can, institutionally, access a wider range of ideas, knowledge, information, resources and markets.
Angolan jurist, social activist, writer and researcher, Elsa Barber is a native of Luanda and has already held the position of Secretary of State for the Family and Women’s Promotion. It has on the market the work “Sustainable Business in Angola”, launched in 2015.
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