In total, nine professionals in different fields will participate in this act divided in two debates with the aim of raising future generations awareness of the value of associations in order to join forces in the field of communication when it refers to machismo attitudes

‘Which is our role?’ is the main question with which nine feminist journalists will deal in a debate day in València. They participate in various initiatives with the purpose of making visible that critical communication makes a fairer society with both genres.

On Thursday, Mercedes Domènech, Cristina Fallarás, Anna Gimeno, Ana bernal-Triviño, Remei Castelló, Isabel Cadenas-Canó, Ana Reviejo and Emilia Bolinches will participate in two round tables which will take place in the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication.

The first round table (at 5.00 p.m.), under the title ‘#LasPeriodistasParamos, the creation of a female labour group’ will deal with the origin, the consolidation and the consequences of a professional network which started to work together in February of 2018. María Iranzo will be the moderator, a lecturer and a researcher of the Universitat de València who conducted a research of this hashtag in the social network.

Tittled ‘To a feminist strike.  Communicative measures to be adopted. Associations’, the second topic of the debates (at 6.30 p.m.) will deal with the way in which the association can contribute to raising awareness of the importance of demanding an equality and fair society among future journalists, and among women in general. The moderator of the discussion will be Violeta Tena, Vice-Principal of the Valencian Journalists Union and the responsible for the department ‘Observatori de la iqualtat’, which means ‘Equality Observatory’ in the autonomic channel Àpunt.

The sign of the act was designed by Paula M. Rufat. ‘She is a girl who looks ahead with power and with a lot of security.  Around her arm, we can see the emblem of the movement #LasPeriodistasParamos and, inside her, everyone who, together with her, is making efforts and fights for a more equal world’, explained the Valencian illustrator.

The debates are organised by the Language Theory and Communication Sciences Department and the research group Mediaflows.  In addition, the Equality and Inclusive Policy Committee of the Faculty, the Equality Unit of the University and the Valencian Journalist Union joined this initiative.