Paula Gómez-Angulo: "We can’t expect others to change"

Paula Gómez-Angulo is the president of the Youth Section Women in Equality, an organization dedicated to the defense of women in every way, from the inequality of wages to abuse. She has a degree in journalism is also a Member of the Assembly of Madrid and Coordinator General of New Generation Communication of the Partido Popular.

In this interview, explains the purpose of that NGO and what are the projects that she is currently engaged in.

What are the main objectives for which the organization is currently struggling?
Women in Equality is an organization that strives for real equality between men and women. We manage four shelters for women victims of abuse and a centre for immigrant women (Cosmi) that is in the District of Vallecas.

What is the daily work in Women in Equality?
We are currently renovating the organizational structure in Spain and implanted into provinces where it did not exist, so we are traveling a lot. In addition to managing the shelters, which require total involvement.

We also produce various information campaigns and protest on issues related to current events and problems facing women in our society, such as working hours.

We are also increasingly present in the internet, and in addition to the website, we have a profile on Facebook, Twitter and our own channel on YouTube, NIUNAMÁS, which is for anyone who wants to express their opinions against abuse.

What do you think are the problems that women have to face today in a modern society like the Spanish?
The main problem is the responsibility, not the reconciliation, between her life and work.

Today, women are forced to choose between having a family or a career, and that must be changed. It is not a problem for women, but of society. Only involved women and men can eradicate it.
This goes engaged with working hours, wage differentials ...

You have a section aimed at young women. What kind of matters is dedicating this part of Women's Equality?
The youth section, which is what I led directly, seeks to engage young women in society and work, contributing their views to solve the problems we encounter today.

Young women have been born in democracy and we cultivate equality with men, we had the same opportunities.

The problem arises when, at the time of entering the labor market, differences still exist at the time of hiring, wages ... and this can change by putting each one our grain of sand from different areas of society. It is a matter of implication, we can not expect others to change things, we all have to contribute.

What are the results so far of rural training and new technologies that you are teaching? Do you plan to further develop such activities in the near future?
The courses are offered each year here, and it depends on the subsidies that we expand or not. The result has always been very positive and an increasing number of women have received them.

The Institute for Women has supported your "Manual for the prevention of gender violence." They are interesting such partnerships to achieve the objectives. Have you done any other work with other organizations?
We currently have a partnership with an association of prostitutes, to eradicate trafficking from the countries of origin. You have to inform women before they come to Spain of what they will find here.

Thank you, Paula, for your opinions and let us know the interesting projects of this organization.