Rajoy Announces Plan for Equality between Men and Women

USPA NEWS - The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said Wednesday in Parliament the forthcoming adoption of a Plan for Equality between Men and Women, including affirmative action to ensure equality between the sexes. Rajoy expressed in this regard to questions from the opposition.

In response to a question from Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, after the publication of a report on wage differences between men and women in Spain, Rajoy argued, however, that salaries are set by companies and the government can not intervene in it. Maybe that's why your ad did not refer to wages but insisted that his government "advocates equality", a "priority" issue on which all departments work. As an example of his statements said public health, payment of pensions, education law, the market drive the Regional Liquidity Fund (FLA its acronym in Spanish) and the Fund Provider, which considers achievements their mandate. They hopes to unite the creation of one million jobs by 2016.

Faced with these arguments, the Socialist leader accused the government to legislate against half of the Spanish population, referring to women who need to work 79 days more per year than men to earn the same salary. For its part, the spokesman for the conservative training UPyD, Rosa Diez, accused Rajoy of not tune with citizens and asked him to "not rude to those who suffer". He warned that 13 million Spaniards are at risk of social exclusion due to lack of resources and denounced energy poverty of many families. According to Rosa Diez, in Spain growing inequality "between citizens, between regions, between men and women".