"Women around the world regularly suffer violations of their rights and it is not always considered a priority to make them effective, because it means understanding globally the different ways in which different cultures discriminate against women". This was stated at the University of Navarra by Ana María Vega, director of the Chair UNESCO of Citizenship, Democracy and Cultural Freedom of the University of La Rioja. Her intervention was part of the Academic workshop organized by the Schools of Theology and Ecclesiastics of Philosophy, entitled "The role of women in today's world and in the Church", and celebrated on the occasion of the feast of his patron saint St. Thomas Aquinas.

For Ana María Vega "to speak of women's demands in the 21st century means to understand what is happening, to review some cultural approaches or assumptions, which at this time continue to harm the dignity, equality and rights of women, and to propose a paradigm of the human to meet the current challenges", as stated in the document Man and Woman Created Themof the Congregation for the Catholic Education .

He said that one of the things that this document raises is the need to adequately deepen the way in which sexual difference is lived in different cultures. It also states that over the centuries "unjust forms of subordination have emerged that sadly have marked history and have also influenced the Church". In this sense, Ana María Vega pointed out that "the interpretations and exegeses that have been made of the three main monotheistic religions, especially of the Gospel message, have betrayed a much more revolutionary message than the one that has been transmitted to us for centuries".

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lecture In her speech, the professor recalled that in Spain "women have been made invisible, as they say, until 'the day before yesterday'", and emphasized her participation in the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995: "It was a planned diary deadline of 30 years, which in Spain is already part of the legal system, but at that time it seemed like science fiction". However, she wanted to emphasize that, to this day, there are still regulations in force in the world that allow polygamy, repudiation, child marriages, the duty of obedience to the husband or prevent a woman from marrying a man who is not of the same religion.

quotation During the workshop, which was attended by a hundred people, also participated María José Olasti, director of The Family Watch, who focused her exhibition on "Female talent, challenges and challenges in the XXI century"; and José Francisco Serrano Oceja, professor at the CEU San Pablo University, who offered a message focused on "Women in the Church:subject pending?speech unfocused?".