Would you discard a highly qualified and experienced professional to coordinate a senior center if she wore hijab? If you had the ability to hire, would you let yourself be carried away by prejudice even if the curriculum showed that the veiled woman is the best prepared? This is the fictitious situation that La Ventanilla Indiscreta has posed to a group of seniors in a municipality of Alicante with the aim of reflecting on the stereotypes associated with gender Islamophobia.
The participants believed that they were part of a selection process to hire a coordinator of the Senior Center of the municipality, for which they analyzed the curriculum of two fictitious candidates (one of them Muslim) before knowing that it was a social experiment. Do you want to know what their reactions were and who they chose?
In addition to the experiment, a seminar on the Sustainable Development Goals and a discussion forum was also held with the participation of 35 people and with the assistance of the councilor for the elderly of Novelda, Melani Sanchez. These meetings have served to reflect on gender Islamophobia, which is the main attack of racist hatred faced by Muslim women around the world.
The UN considers Islamophobia to be a pandemic of hate. It is the type of racism that most affects the Muslim population across Europe and the fastest growing hate crime in Spain, especially on social networks. In addition, women suffer Islamophobic hatred disproportionately through xenophobic stereotypes and attacks that pigeonhole them as submissive women without capacity.
The residents of Quart de Poblet have addressed gender inequalities in salaries and pensions in another social experiment with the elderly in the framework of La Ventanilla Indiscreta. During the experiment, a group of people are asked to work equally as a team to achieve the success of an activity, but when it comes to the rewards there are surprises that reflect great inequalities and provoke different reactions. Do you want to discover them?
And you, would you work the same for less pay? This is what the gender pay gap refers to, which focuses on the existing differences between the salaries received by men and women, taking into account that traditionally women have access to worse conditions and tend to carry family burdens, so they have lower salaries and pensions.
The wage gap in pensions stands at 33% in Spain, according to the Social Observatory of the Elderly (2023). This means that men receive a monthly pension of 465 euros more than women. The cause is the unequal distribution of care work, mostly carried out by women who have historically assumed the burden of part-time work and reconciliation.
Around all this have been able to reflect deeply about fifty people attending the seminar and discussion forum of La Ventanilla Indiscreta in Quart de Poblet, in which also participated the mayor Cristina Mora and the councilor of seniors and social services Llum Moral, as well as Maria Carmen Aliaga, representing the group of Empowered Women of the Casa de la Dona de Quart de Poblet.
Xàtiva, Quart de Poblet and a municipality in Alicante have already hosted the second edition of La Ventanilla Indiscreta, a social awareness project promoted by Jovesólides that seeks to identify some of the most widespread prejudices among the population in order to address them through social action and reflection. In the coming weeks, the town of Alboraia will witness a similar experience on other issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, in May, a large festival will be held in Valencia, bringing together participants from all the municipalities and where all the videos will be premiered.
La Ventanilla Indiscreta is a project of education for global citizenship funded by the Vicepresidencia segunda y Conselleria de Servicios Sociales, Igualdad y Vivienda from the budget allocation from the IRPF. It is also co-financed by Caixa Popular and the Coordinadora Valenciana de ONGD.
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