I declare myself to be a little fan of American Football, what I know about this sport I learned in my favorite movie: The Blind Side and I never thought I would write about it. Much less did I think that the most infamous news of this last LVII issue was carried away by a pregnancy.
I posted it on my social media and now I’m repeating it again: “Put a photo of the goddess #Rihanna in all #recruitment and #staff offices. When we’re pregnant we can sing at a world class event on a platform, of course we can with your work Juan. To get used to something.”
From my feminism and with the power of purple glasses that lead me to analyze everything from a gender perspective, it is clear that Rihanna has won the victory and with her the working mothers who daily face the system’s attacks on our professional and personal life endure development.
Mexico is home to 65 million women (we represent 52% of the population) who, according to National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) data from the third quarter of 2022, only 45 out of 100 of working age are economically active, while men account for 77 per 100 in the economically active population (EAP). can you see the gap
Are you worried about the singer’s health, do you consider pregnancy a disease? I don’t judge you, the federation’s spending budget has been making the same mistake for years. The public funds allocated to pay maternity benefits for working women in Mexico are reported along with the health budget, and moreover, the federal labor code confuses the phase of caring for a newborn with rest periods, so don’t, you’re not complaining because a pregnant woman is at the Singen did a commercial, that’s the system that taught you to think like that and behave like that, and that “learning” is called patriarchy.
Luckily, the National Football League (NFL) appears to already have a diversity and inclusion committee on the production team for the awaited show. Article 4 of the Constitution of Mexico states that “everyone has the right to freely, responsibly and informedly determine the number and spacing of his children”. For its part, the Federal Labor Code provides in Article 133 that “it is forbidden to require the production of medical certificates of non-pregnancy for entry, permanence or advancement into employment,” according to the latest edition of the National Report The Dynamics of Relationships in Homes ( ENDIREH) has different data: Of the total number of women who had a job, 27.9% experienced some kind of violence throughout their working life.
If you apply the arguments made on the networks to the world of work, you will understand why the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (CONAPRED) cites pregnancy as the most common reason for discrimination complaints received since 2011. Yes, it’s the discrimination fact that people on social media commented on Rihanna’s pregnancy as the factor preventing her from “growing up.” Let’s celebrate the great night that the Super Bowl LVII halftime show was for the feminist movement.
If you want to reduce violence in the workplace, I will accompany you. For the fourth time in a row, I am launching the call for the ranking: Best organizations for Godín Moms, i.e. for mothers who work in a company. In the 2022 edition, we received data from 186 organizations, of which only 25 were recognised. This year interested parties have to do a self-assessment of sixty indicators, if your employer wants to take part in the free exercise you can start the process: here.
Let it be heard loud and clear that a woman can do whatever she wants before, during and after pregnancy. And what can you say to Rihanna… as she sings herself in Umbrella: “I’ll always be your friend” [Siempre seré su amiga].
*Aideé Zamorano is the founder of Mama Godín, a project for working mothers to get tools to defend their rights.
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And a documentary: “Pamela Anderson, A Love Story” (2023)
Actress Pamela Anderson.Cordon Press
If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look at this documentary available on Netflix. In it, Pamela Anderson, former ’90s TV superstar, Play Boy cover girl and sex icon, shares her story. In it, she reflects on the objectification she received because of her body: “I always say my tits made a career, I was just in the pack,” she says in part of the film. She also opens up about the scandal she experienced with her husband, singer Tommy Lee, in 1995 when an intimate video of the two having sex was leaked online. The first viral video in history. “For the press, he became a rock star with a crazy life. You, in a whore. Pamela Anderson fell out of favor and became, as she herself explains, “a late joke, a cartoon character, a caricature”, as Enrique Alpañés recounts in this article in EL PAÍS.
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