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"The problem of equality is not gender but of ignorance. We all know that we can do the same as any man," said Pilar Zapata today after receiving the 8M Prize, awarded each year by the Commission for Equality Policy San Javier .
The award was presented by the mayor, José Miguel Luengo and the Councillor for Women and Equality, Estíbaliz Masegosa, after reading the institutional manifesto 8M, International Women's Day, a meal of living of women in the municipality, the who attended much of the municipal corporation.
His son, the councilman Antonio Luengo was in charge of presenting the award-winning highlighting its independence as a woman and her desire to excel.
Pilar Zapata was the first and only woman in the workforce of the Community of Irrigators where for 10 years he was responsible for managing risks to farmers.
Quieting many voices raised by her womanhood, Pilar managed to master the work she did her husband died prematurely when she was 35 years and 3 small children.
When he had to leave the position in which the respect of his teammates he won, to meet the family farming did not think and with 50 years gained the qualification of professional farmer in the Training Centre of Torre Pacheco (CIFE).
Training has been a constant in the life of this woman that her son described as "an activist of social networks".
He combined his young family support in the field with secretarial studies while 18 years obtained a driving license "to not depend on anyone."
His first job was as an accountant in San Javier Pardo Supermarket until she married and moved.
The death of her husband, for I had a memory in his acceptance speech, changed his life.
His father gave him words of encouragement he needed to keep and raise her children.
Now enjoys his granddaughter and his family while traveling, enjoy the cinema, theater, reading, cooking, whose knowledge reports by social networks, collaborate on everything that has to do with his people "the best of world ", and social relationships, being a particularly appreciated and loved by his neighbors wife.
The delivery of 8M Award was preceded by the reading of institutional manifesto of International Women's Day by the mayor, José Miguel Then they placed special emphasis on the persistent inequality in labor defending equal pay between women and men and reconciliation actions effective, both in the public and private sectors for women and men.
He also called for the defense of women rights without any live anywhere in the world, without forgetting those who suffer the worst of inequality as gender violence or trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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