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El Gobierno español hace "visible" a la mujer ruralThe Spanish Government makes 'visible' to rural women
March 24, 2011
According to official data, about 100,000 rural women will benefit from the future law on ownership shared farm tomorrow starts processing through the adoption, in Council, the draft of the preliminary draft. There is thus accomplished response to the historic claim to ensure that women farmers and livestock to obtain legal, social and economic recognition of the important, but invisible role, always played by women in the agricultural domain. "The social reality in the rural environment has hindered the participation of women in conditions of equality of rights and obligations arising from the farm." "Historically, the woman has shared with man agricultural tasks without that this work has enjoyed sufficient legal recognition, economic value and social reflection", reminded Bethlehem Verdugo, responsible for the area of women of COAG,
The most important aspects that collects the draft of the Bill include the following:
-Distribution of agricultural aid and the operating profit to 50% among both proprietors.
-The agricultural exploitation of shared ownership shall be considered farm priority in obtaining benefits, grants and other shared ownership building measures promoted by the administration.
-Recognition of the right to financial compensation: it is one of the great innovations of the preliminary draft and lies in the recognition of a right of compensation for the work actually done and not legally recognized. Thus, those women having participated effectively and regularly do not receive payment or any consideration for the work which have not been with his partner a shared ownership, shall be entitled to financial compensation both in the case of transmission of the exploitation and extinction of the marriage.
