2023-12-31 15:48:10
2023 Women’s Football World Cup fileInvoluntarily becoming a global symbol in the fight for gender equality, Hermoso will participate on Sunday evening in the broadcast of the twelve strokes of midnight at the Puerta del Sol, in Madrid, an event followed at the television by millions of people.
On August 20, she found herself forcefully kissed in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers. This Sunday, December 31, Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso will be one of the distinguished guests of the broadcast of the twelve strokes of midnight at Puerta del Sol, in Madrid, an event followed on television by millions of people, in Spain and in Latin America.
Having become, despite herself, a global symbol in the fight for equality between men and women, Hermoso will participate on Sunday evening in the New Year’s Eve show, presented live from the famous Madrid square. Tradition has it that the Spanish swallow twelve grapes to the sound of these twelve knocks for good luck.
A few minutes after the world coronation of the Spanish women’s team in Sydney against England, the boss of Spanish football, Luis Rubiales, aged 46, kissed the attacker on the mouth by surprise, provoking indignation in Spain and around the world.
Jenni Hermoso denounces a “sexist, inappropriate and without any consent” act on her part, Luis Rubiales maintains for a long time that it is only a “little consented kiss”, before resigning on September 10. Charged with “sexual assault” by the courts, he was suspended for three years from all football-related activities by Fifa (international federation). He says he is the victim of a “disproportionate campaign”.
Woman of the year
Elected woman of the year 2023 by the Spanish edition of the prestigious American magazine GQ, Jenni Hermoso explained: “I had to assume the consequences of an act that I did not provoke, that I did not choose nor premeditated. I even received threats and it’s something you never get used to.” Number 10 must be heard on Tuesday by the judge in charge of the Rubiales case while many witnesses have already been heard.
At the beginning of December, the president of the English federation, Debbie Hewitt, explained that Rubiales had been “aggressive” after the final of the Women’s World Cup and had made “inappropriate” gestures towards English players, according to a text published Wednesday by the Fifa.
In the space of two decades, Spanish society has carried out a real revolution in the face of machismo. In 2004, socialist Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero laid the foundations by launching a comprehensive law against domestic violence. Since then, the feminist movement has been unstoppable. So much so that Spanish conservatives and socialists, although divided on so many subjects, are aligned in this fight from which today only Vox, the far-right group, stands out.
Pedro Sánchez’s executive included more women than men, parity is progressing everywhere – despite great resistance in the business world – and the country is one of the few to have promulgated a law on sexual consent.
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