Thursday, October 28, 2010

Women in Power

 Women  gender has always had an  historically disavantage  behind of men figure.
Once, an stupid man said (He had a theory about the superiority of men) that the women´s brain is smaller than the men´s brain. When this guy died, the doctors took out his brain, and they realized that  it was a very small brain.  However, many of the women have demonstrated similar skills and personal qualities wich have helped in their careers.

Women have determined the course of events and the forms of human culture. We originated, founded, governed, created great art, etc. But  we are  ignorant of these women, because the mission of information in different societies according to female role in public life, diplomacy, medicine, religion, arts, etc.

So, we need a remedial history that reconstructs the female dimension of the human experience and achievement.

 Nowadays, we have more tools to fight the sexism, that is thanks to mass media, mainly internet. It does not only allow the joining of women´s groups, but of many different one, which has been concieved like minority.  In this kind of websites it's important focus them  to reach equal rights and opportunities for women, especially the extension of their activities into the social and political life.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

The miners

The thirty men rescued of the San Jose mine are an example about the precarious and  unsafe conditions of labour in the mines. This is an important point, because mining industry is the most important profitable area  in Chile, so is necessary that our country supervised  to the firms, because it´s a very risky activity that involved human lives, which the state must to protected (because  live and  personal safety are Constitutional Right).  That is why is not  enough   that state created  security rules, he  must  have control about the implementation and inspection of  the rules that have been announced.
 The rate of death for   mining accident  is  an average around  thirty-four people per age (between two thousand to two thousand nine), I mean, the same number that the miners rescued.  This rate is very high  if we considered that the mining activity is the main source of  job in the north of our country.  Therefore, is an urgent need to improve the systems and procedures to protect the life integrity and dignity pf the workers, not only in mining, but for all workers in Chile.
Now, owners of the San Esteban mining company suspended all activities after the collapse of their mine San Jose and two hundred fifty people are unemployment. So, it is important to make a balance between to create jobs and  the labour conditions.
Even with proper legislation in place, businesses in Chile are prone to ignore regulations, and with eight hundred thousand businesses in the country it is impossible to monitor them all.  The supervision of safety and heath in mines is of vital importance. The inspection of mines by inspectors designated fof the purpose by the competent authority.