The Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, attends the event organized by UN Women and Arab Women Organization
The minister took part in the event "The care economy in a changing world: how the equal sharing of care and domestic responsibilities between men and women can be a tool for equity and social cohesion".
The aim of the meeting is to analyse changing roles within families and the growing need to address care work, positive masculinities and men's involvement in care.
Redondo insisted that "care must be made more visible and better valued". "We need political will. We need a regulatory development that recognises care, with cross-cutting laws," she said.
To move forwards, she said that "a powerful institutional network at all levels" is also necessary, and added that, thirdly, "sufficient, cross-cutting and growing budgets" are needed.
Since Monday, the minister has taken part in the 68th CSW - Commission on the Status of Women - that is being held until 22 March at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
The CSW is the largest annual United Nations meeting on gender equality and women's empowerment, whose main theme this year is "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective".
This event is a meeting point for governments, civil society organisations, experts and activists from all over the world. It is expected to agree on actions and investments that can end women's poverty and promote gender equality.
Side events
In addition, the Ministry for Equality is today organising the event "Parity Democracy and Social Justice" at the Cervantes Institute in New York. Joining Ana Redondo will be the President of the Mexican Women's Institute, the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the Minister for Solidarity, Social Integration and Family of Morocco, moderated by the President of GWL Voices.
Until Friday, dozens of meetings have been organised, such as with Latin American ministers, the Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, the Brazilian Minister for Women, the President of the Mexican Women's Institute, and the Spanish Permanent Representative to the United Nations, among others.
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