[Politics] Uncertainty reigns in the Ministry of Women of Argentina about her future with Milei

[FNX Magokiler]

“If one of Alberto Fernández's main campaign promises in 2019 was to create a Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, one of Javier Milei's this year was to eradicate it,” maintains the Argentine newspaper La Nación in a note published on the 3rd. December, which also confirms what was mentioned by a space worker to El Mostrador Braga on December 6: four days after his inauguration, despite the intentions expressed throughout the campaign, the Milei Government does not confirm what the future of the ministry.

“It is a great question that we ask ourselves today, being December 6. Imagine those of us who have homes, those of us who have conviction for our work (work) in gender matters... we had a meeting with the minister and they have not communicated about a transition, with all that that means, not only internally, right? salaries, bonuses, vacations, leave for people who are about to give birth, but also what is going to happen to the beneficiaries of the programs,” explains the lawyer and specialist in Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI) Sol Erazo, who is a member of the Produce Program. of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity.

In a Zoom interview and asked why laws, programs or actions in space are at risk due to the possible elimination of said Secretary of State, the worker responds that “everything that has to do with the ministry and anything related to the ministry is That is to say, with the focus on human rights and gender perspective, today it is in danger.”

From 2010 to the present, Argentina has been recognized on more than one occasion as a pioneer country in human rights advances.

 

 

Laws such as Equal Marriage (2010), the world's first non-pathologizing Gender Identity law (2012), Comprehensive Sexual Education (2006), Trans labor quota (2021), among others, are part of a corpus that recognizes identity and rights of historically marginalized people and groups, which are added to the recently enacted Law 27,610 on abortion, all of which is in danger with the assumption of the new administration.

The thing is that, before his presidential campaign, the president-elect Javier Milei and people who make up his coalition (La Libertad Avanza) criticized the existence of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, whose name was violently thrown on a piece of paper by the then candidate. –on a national TV program– with the cry of “get out!”, signaling his intention to eliminate it. Even the future vice president, Victoria Villarruel, said in an interview that “it is useless.”

A short history and one of the smallest plants in the State
On December 10, 2019, with the inauguration of President Alberto Fernández, the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity was created, amid an increase in the number of femicides.

According to information on its website, it is made up of three Secretariats (Policies Against Gender-Based Violence, Equality and Diversity Policies, and the Advisory Cabinet Unit) and six Undersecretariats (Training, Research and Cultural Policies). for Equality, Comprehensive Addressing of Gender-Based Violence, Special Programs Against Gender-Based Violence, Equality Policies, Diversity Policies and Administrative Management), which together –according to information from La Nación – They support a plant of 1,278 employees, one of the smallest in the state apparatus, whose investment corresponds to 0.58% of the entire national public administration.

 

https://www.elmostrador.cl/braga/2023/12/07/incertidumbre-reina-en-el-ministerio-de-las-mujeres-de-argentina-sobre-su-futuro-con-milei/