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On a cold Monday morning in June, some 50 women from various political backgrounds gathered in this Argentine port city to talk about gender roles inside the home. They conceived of a society in which men and women of all classes share both the responsibility to care for children and the sick and elderly and have the option to work.
Panelist Silvia Augsburger, a socialist former congresswoman, said the “classic idea” of men as the primary wage earners without family responsibilities is no longer viable in Argentina.
“We need a paradigm shift, a cultural transformation,” she told the gathering. “The main obstacle is reaching those women for whom it would never occur to step into a different role.”
Augsburger is a leading fighter for women’s rights in Argentina, a country that she says remains largely unequal despite huge advances, including a female head of state.
Read more at WeNews, published 14 August 2012.
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On a cold Monday morning in June, some 50 women from various political backgrounds gathered in this Argentine port city to talk about gender roles inside the home. They conceived of a society in which men and women of all classes share both the responsibility to care for children and the sick and elderly and have the option to work.
Panelist Silvia Augsburger, a socialist former congresswoman, said the “classic idea” of men as the primary wage earners without family responsibilities is no longer viable in Argentina.
“We need a paradigm shift, a cultural transformation,” she told the gathering. “The main obstacle is reaching those women for whom it would never occur to step into a different role.”
Augsburger is a leading fighter for women’s rights in Argentina, a country that she says remains largely unequal despite huge advances, including a female head of state.
Read more at WeNews, published 14 August 2012.
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