The Councillor for Equality, Alicia Abellán, stressed the importance of conducting these workshops to work on the prevention of gender violence from all sectors, especially working with the younger generation, who sometimes assume gender roles hence the importance of continuing to work with them.
As explained by the Equality Agent, Paqui Ruiz, the workshops began yesterday and will be performed with all juniors secondary school in the town, and end on November 23.
The workshop consists, according to the agent explained Equality, in a session with each group, very intense, dynamic and participatory, getting to be quite effective.
Each session is taught is divided into two parts: one is working in male and female stereotypes that exist in society, and also work socializing agents: media, family, language, school ... in general, everything that influences the education and does distinguish what is being female or male, perception sometimes is far removed from reality.
After the first part, we analyze a situation that may resemble reality, where a boy and a girl, studying in different institutes, start dating, succeeding assaults and pressures, apparently normal, but gradually, the young people themselves recognize as an isolated situation, proving that sometimes what seems normal, it is not.
At the end of the workshop discussing the characteristics of an egalitarian relationship, and the types of violence that is, cycles of violence, highlighting the most interesting and making young people think.
The workshop which was held yesterday, as manifested Paqui Ruiz, collected some phrases that show that there is still much work to do to get eradicate these ideas, and that the base is the prevention of gender violence.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla