interview: josé saramago

jose saramago talks about women's condition in the age of globalization
Interview by : Cristina Sivieri Tagliabue
Shoot by: Filippo Lorenzi

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• jose saramago
• women condition
• donna
• nobel
• non chiederci la parola
• milano

[KawaiiHanamii]

@yanooth and it was interesting, because, in my opinion, men are the ones who should solve the problem of maltreatments against women. Because it's not the law, it's not the courts, it's the public awareness that has to solve that problem.

[KawaiiHanamii]

@yanooth What is that education? When we know education is in a severe crisis everywhere, the family is in crises... so, there's a lot of problems that are the result of the undefined role of each person. And that way things won't be solved! Some years ago i said that man should be the ones denoucing the maltreatments against women, and I proposed men should make protests, men that are serious, intelligent, sensible, men that don't maltreat their women, that happened in Sevilha, in Uruguay(...)

[KawaiiHanamii]

@yanooth the problem of woman that can't work because of pregnancy...all those woman's problems, that were forgotten. Or to the think of woman as a ordinary worker, and she's not, she's not because of the sex, because of the temper, because of a lot of things. That was not done. Something similar happened with the democratization of the education. Everybody says it's conquest of democracy, every student can go to the university, but people won't ask, what is that university? (...)

[KawaiiHanamii]

@yanooth she gives him a drink, he has a rumpled shirt, she has to iron it...she prepares the man for the next day's work... this has always happened and is still happening. The entry of the woman in the labor market, what should have been more thought by the society where this was happening, had.. i don't want to call it bad consequences, but it had consequences that could be avoided, if the situation was well studied. The timetables for the woman(...)

[KawaiiHanamii]

@yanooth There's not equality, and there's this Italian tendency, not only Italian, but Italian for sure, to make the woman a housewife, because in the point view of the "power" woman that are housewifes save money! Because, they take care of children, of eldery people and sometimes ill people, and that "relieves" the responsability of the state. The "problem" is that somehow the woman was condemned to re-establish the workforece of man. Man arrives home, he's tired, she unshoe him, (...)

[KawaiiHanamii]

@yanooth There's not equality, and there's this Italian tendency, not only Italian, but Italian for sure, to make the woman a housewife, because in the point view of the "power" woman that are housewifes save money! Because, they take care of children, of eldery people and sometimes ill people, and that "relieves" the responsability of the state. The "problem" is that somehow the woman was condemned to re-establish the workforece of man. Man arrives home, he's tired, she unshoe him, (...)

[yanooth]

can someone please translate what he is saying? thank you.

[andrukas1984]

Bellissima intervista!!

Nota al traduttore: Saramago dice "fanno risparmiare lo Stato" non guadagnare! Infatti usa il verbo poupar...