The FC Barcelona, 100% involved in the International Day of the Woman

By means of distinct acts and audiovisual messages, the FC Barcelona has decided to participate actively in the celebration of the International Day of the Woman. In the last hours already organised in the Auditori 1899 the 'première' of the docuficción 'The Sagi, a pioneer of the Barça', the first woman that formed part of the managerial board of the FC Barcelona in 1934, championed of the feminism and with a full life of challenges, fight and also successes in the world of the sport.

Well, this Friday 8 March has started the act 'Barça: feminine, plural', in which the president Josep María Bartomeu and the secretary of the Managerial Board, Maria Teixidor, have been the first in taking the word. "It does us a lot of illusion. The Barça, from his foundation, along all the history, always has been very sensitive to the evolution and the needs of the society", has signalled Josep Maria Bartomeu.

"Today, we go back to do the same that the past year. We go back to do an exercise of reflection and want to put in value all the efforts for attaining the status quo of the woman", has added, remembering that "from the club can speak without complexes. Have two women in the board, a feminine team very strong, 44% of our employees are hard-working. The day of today also is a homage to all the women that struggled and those that find struggling against this social injustice. We want to listen, expose and also report".

"Be 'month that a club' involves to have an open and different look. We expect that along our days see the change"

Josep Maria Bartomeu has left clear that, in spite of the work made in the last years after the equality of sexes in the FC Barcelona, still remains a lot of work for doing. "This is a challenge that assume and are conscious that are far of what would be just. We do not leave to grow, surely are the first club of the world with more partners women. It does lacking to follow working to arrive to the full equality. Be 'més that a club' involves to have an open and different look. We expect that along our days see the change".

The reality is that, in the FC Barcelona, the presence of the woman is very alive in all the fields of the club -partners, peñistas, employees, players, sportsmen 'amateur'- and between all consolidate the plurality of the club, for a total of 84.303 women linked to the entity culé, of the which 37.863 are active partners of the FC Barcelona.

From 1939, year in that the presence of the woman in the Barça situated around 4,27%, has gone growing progressively in this percentage until arriving to 26,6% of 2018, a quantity that still is not just, but that every time approaches more to the equality. It fits to remember that, in summer of 2015, the feminine football of the Barça did professional to his first team. At present said plot compose it 92 footballers, 22 of them in the first team and 70 in the four formative teams. In total, 701 players integrate seven amateur sections, 51% of the 1.366 amateur sportsmen. 255 women belong to the section of the volleyball, with difference the most populated by in front of the basketball (179).

The Barça dumps in the International Day of the Woman

This Friday, in the Auditori 1899, the distinct reports oriented to the International Day of the Woman have begun to the 10 of the morning (Spanish peninsular hour), and foresees that they lengthen during all the day with the presence of personalities like the vice-president of the Espai Barça Jordi Moix, the managerial Oriol Tomàs and the adviser of Health, Alba Vergés, in addition to the already mentioned Bartomeu and Maria Teixidor.

The FC Barcelona, to all this, has promoted through his social networks lto campaign #wearefootballers, with a video in which they appear some of the players of the first team of football of the Barcelona, as Lieke Martens, defending the total equality of sexes in all the sports, especially in which them incumbe. Also it looks for clear concepts of language to the hour to speak of footballers, without distinction between players or players, leaving in evidence the sentence 'Football is not for girls'.

From the club, in definite, follows promoting the equality of gender in all the estamentos of the barcelonismo, in a marked day in the calendar as it is the International Day of the Woman. Maximum visibility of the Barça in search of the egalitarian claim. As it has to be.