Gender equality implies the same opportunities for men and women.
Gender equity is the objective of the search for equality between men and women in the control and use of society 's goods and services. This means abolishing discrimination between both sexes and not privileging men in any aspect of social life, as was common a few decades ago in most Western societies.
It should be noted that the concept of equity is linked to justice , impartiality and social equality . The genus , on the other hand, is a class or type that allows beings that have one or more common characteristics to be grouped together.
Search for gender equality
We can establish that for gender equality to take place, two specific and fundamental situations must occur or be generated. On the one hand, there would be equal opportunities and on the other, the creation of a series of specific conditions so that the aforementioned opportunities can be taken advantage of.
In this sense, it must be emphasized that to achieve equity, different advances are being made in the vast majority of sectors of our current society. In this way we find, for example, the fact that in Spain it is advocated for there to be parity between men and women within the political sphere.
Thus, it is interesting to highlight that one of the governments that strictly followed this principle was the one whose president was José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , who led the country from 2004 to 2011 .
Gender equality means eliminating negative discrimination against women.
A fair distribution
Gender equity consists of standardizing existing opportunities to distribute them fairly between both sexes. Men and women must have the same development opportunities. The State , therefore, has to guarantee that resources are allocated symmetrically.
A woman, likewise, should not get less than a man for the same job. Any person must earn what is their own according to their merits and cannot be favored to the detriment of others. A man and a woman, therefore, must receive the same remuneration for the same job that includes identical obligations and responsibilities.
This situation of equity must be achieved without neglecting gender characteristics . Women, for example, are entitled to extensive maternity leave, while paternity leave is shorter. In this case, biological issues are taken into account and positive discrimination is carried out between both sexes.
The civil organization Gender Equality
In this sense, it is important to emphasize that there is precisely a non-profit organization called Gender Equity and that operates fundamentally in Mexico . It is an entity that is committed and works at all times to achieve equality between men and women while carrying out what would be the promotion of women's rights .
In 1996, this civil organization was founded, which, among other things, carries out the proposal of policies that serve to achieve this equality, thus allowing women to participate and be present in all areas of our current society.