The Women’s Office of the Council of Eivissa and the Santa Eulària Town Council collaborate in the meeting, which offers training in gender equality and disability
More than thirty professionals from the social and health fields are taking part in the conference organised by the Balearic Women’s Institute, IBDONA, ‘For an inclusive approach to equality’, which is taking place today at the Jesús Cultural Centre in Santa Eulària des Riu. During the meeting, organised in collaboration with the Women’s Office of the Council of Eivissa and the Santa Eulària Town Hall, those attending will receive training in gender equality and disability.
The conference, which forms part of the cycle of activities on the occasion of 8M, International Women’s Day, provides tools for professionals to incorporate the gender perspective into daily practice in the social and health fields. Thus, emphasis is placed on the discrimination suffered by women with disabilities based on the interrelation between different factors such as gender and disability, in different areas. In this sense, the interventions of the speakers cover topics such as health and sexuality, the social and occupational integration of women with disabilities and participation in the field of sport.
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In short, the conference aims to contribute to the improvement of the inter-institutional response and to reinforce a network of municipal, insular and regional services that guarantee quality, humanising care with an inclusive approach to equality.
The conference will be attended by the director of IBDONA, Cati Salom; the executive councillor of the Department of Social Welfare, Family and Equality of the Council of Eivissa, Carolina Escandell; the regional coordinator of User Care and Humanisation of the Health Service, Francisco González, and the councillor for Equality, Transparency and Social Action of the Santa Eulària des Riu Town Council, Antònia Picó.
The specific content of the training consists of the presentation ‘Gender perspective within the field of disability’, by the president of FoQua Carmen Muñoz; the dialogue ‘Women, sexuality and health’, between Mar Cerezález (Aspaym) and the journalist Marta Torres; the round table ‘The social and labour insertion of women with disabilities’, moderated by Lourdes García, (head of section of the Women’s Office of the Consell d’Eivissa), and with the participation of Lucía Ortín (APFEM), Carlos Lara (Advice and Labour Insertion Service for People with Disabilities – SAIL-PD), and Raquel Guerra (Labour Insertion Service of Amadiba-Ibiza); a talk on ‘Women and disability in the field of sports’, by sportswoman Maria Isabel Marí and ADDIF (Adapted Sports Association of Ibiza and Formentera) technician Maria Vila, and the screening of the report ‘An inclusive look at equality’, produced by Sealand Films for IBDONA.