The Argentine Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted to repeal a 1924 law actively barring women from working a plethora of jobs, going so far as to forbid them from working nights. Although the law isn’t meaningfully enforced across the labor market, addressing the legal disparity is being celebrated as a step towards women having more rights. Lospennato presented one of the bills to repeal the law, which was merged with two others by ruling coalition Frente de Todos (FdT) deputies Vanesa Siley and Lucila Masin. “Our present-day makes us reassess those patriarchal stereotypes that translate to the working world as the discrimination that we as women live through and suffer,” said Siley when she addressed the house. She pointed out that although women currently work in jobs prohibited by the law, the legislation is often used to exclude women from certain job sectors, using dock workers as the prime example.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 06, 2023 20:12 UTC