Womens’s social activism in the digital public sphere

Abstract

This paper analyzes how, after years of an apathy participative attitude, women have decided to claim situations of injustice and gender inequality. Social networks have made it possible to interconnect women of different generations, exploiting opportunities for instantaneity, scope and gratuitousness, emphasizing in important aspects as the fight against gender violence and promote gender equality policy. From the perspective provided by the hemerographic reviews, we have analyzed how movements such as #Yositecreo or the International Women’s Day 2018 feminists and put sexual harassment, assaults and abuses into de spotlight. Feminist cyberactivism has opened up to forge alliances, debate and analyze needs, as well as to agree on inclusive and representative measures, but it has also achieved, thanks to social pressure, great achievements such as a new law on sexual freedom or a Royal decree-law that aims to resolve the gender pay gap. However, women still have great milestones to be achieved such as equal opportunities at work and a balanced distribution in leaderships positions, measures that thanks to this collaborative action increasingly occupy a prominent place in the agenda- setting of governments.