Reflecting on the proximity of March 8, “International Women's Day” goes a long way, starting with carefully observing what is happening around us.
When a few years ago a debate was opened with some fear about the prophecies of the Mayans, everyone interpreted that they predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012.
But the most qualified scholars of that peculiar town in eastern Mexico, which disappeared in a strange way without a trace, came to the conclusion that what they were really predicting was a change of era.
That that date that seemed fateful marked the separation between two different stages, the end of one and the birth of another and that this new one, a kind of second Renaissance, was going to be led by women. That the stage of women was entered after centuries of domination by a man in danger of extinction, not physically but ideologically.
Upon reading this new interpretation, many skeptics, almost all of them men, logically, smiled arrogantly. The era of women? Come on!
But looking at the current panorama, especially in politics, everything indicates that it was the correct interpretation. Much of what happens in recent times has a woman's name, in the positive and also in the negative, and the man only appears as a troupe or mere palmero.
To the brilliant emergence a few years ago of the new figures, Ada Colau in Barcelona, or Mónica Oltra in Valencia, Carmen Calvo in the PSOE, or Irene Montero in Podemos, others have been added in the different spaces of politics.
So now we talk about Rocío Monasterio in VOX, Maria Jesús Montero and Nadia Calviño in the PSOE, Inés Arrimadas in Cs, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo in PP, or Ione Belarra in Podemos.
If we add to that bouquet the new State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, the Presidents of Navarra, the Balearic Islands and La Rioja, María Chivite, Francina Armengol and Concha Andreu, the squad is extraordinary.
Women who, regardless of their ideology, whether the reader likes it more or less, are earning respect and admiration for their good work.
Although the leaders of the main parties are unanimously men, although the important leaders of the world are also men, it seems that their days are numbered in the face of the unstoppable push of women.
Likewise, outside of politics, women are magnified, in finance with Patricia Botín, the new President of Banco Santander, or Marta Ortega in business as heir to the Zara empire, or in the media.
Journalists, filmmakers, actresses, film directors, writers...
In music, in theater, in cinema, in cultural activities where it is embarrassing to see that 90% of participants are women, while men fill the bars or remain absorbed in front of a soccer game on TV.
But not only where the media focus is is the figure of women overwhelmingly strengthened, also in social movements, unions, in sports (you only have to look at the latest individual or collective successes and even sports that were previously typical of the male, such as football or rugby are populated with female names)
His increasingly powerful presence in civil society deserves special mention, in which he has been the one who has supported many families, preventing them from sinking as a result of the cruel crisis that we suffered just a few years ago. All this making it compatible with your professional activity.
Brave women who fight in life with dignity, with an unstoppable force at a time of collapse of the male figure who has lost his position, who is not having the capacity to adapt to his new roles as a consequence of the fight for gender equality. .
Probably this male dislocation, this realization that he has been losing his dominant position, is what is at the origin of the unbearable increase in cases of violence, sexual assaults and murders against these empowered women.
The only thing left for the male to try to stop what is coming is the cowardly use of violence.
Indeed, as the Mayans said, we unstoppably began a new era, that of women, a rebirth after another Middle Ages dominated by that male. This opens up a new way of living, of dreaming, of feeling that everything indicates will be very positive for humanity.
We will have to live it with hope and hope that the world of politics will be filled with the names of powerful women...and the rest too, because we will surely do better.
By: José Luis Úriz Iglesias (Former parliamentarian and councilor of the PSN-PSOE)
