世界合作社联盟“三八”节主题：合作社是以男女平等为基础的新经济组织模式

“追求平等，开发智力，开拓创新”是联合国国际妇女节的口号。世界各地的合作者都在提倡合作社作为一个建立在男女平等基础上的创业和创新的经济发展模式。开放、平等一直是合作运动的一个重要特征，也是我们的合作原则之一。创新在合作运动中之所以占首要位置，因为创新来自于社员和合作社不断适应不断发展的社会需求。社员通过自主管理、责任自负的方式去自给自足，自力更生。

ICA性别平等委员会主席MaríaEugeniaPérezZea在2019年国际妇女节活动现场

在3月8日来临之际，世界合作社联盟的性别平等委员会在世界各地的不同国家展示合作社如何在平衡工作与生活、提供价值和长期就业方面支持妇女。通过有薪和无薪工作，承认妇女对社会和世界发展的贡献。我们必须在政府内部建立包容性、参与性和整体性的计划，通过制定创新战略实现在各种部门种的男女平等的国家政策，促使妇女在国家建设中发挥重要作用。并倡导民主参与、兼容并蓄和平等互利的价值观，促进以团结互助为基础的经济体制发展，推动解决社会不平等问题。

我们的重点工作是制止贩卖妇女儿童、切割女性生殖器、童婚、薪酬不平等、杀害女性、性虐待和工作场所骚扰等。今天，我们还要铭记合作社组织为遭受暴力侵害的妇女提供就业机会和提高社会包容度所起到的作用。并将通过投资促进平等的项目去提供平等的教育机会、法律援助，消除一切暴力和虐待、饥饿和贫困。这对每个人来说都是一项任务，不仅仅是女性。

现在，我们能够更接近、更紧密地联系各国，并更好地了解世界上正在发生的事情。有利于我们着眼全球化和各国之间的关系去考虑推动男女平等。

我们可以通过合作社形式的创新来应对挑战并产生贯穿各领域的变革，推动社会转型。加之，合作模式特别适合通过民主管理充分教育参与活动的参与者，以达到解决这些面临的挑战。

可以说，我们肩负着为建设一个更适合所有女性的理想发展未来作出贡献的艰巨任务。让我们努力使第五个可持续发展目标“实现性别平等，赋予所有女性平等权力”成为现实！

原文：

"Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change" is the slogan for the United Nations International Women's Day. Cooperators around the world are calling out to show how cooperatives are an entrepreneurial and innovative model that builds on a foundation of gender equality.

With one of our cooperative principles being open membership, gender equality has always been a key feature of the cooperative movement. The cooperative movement is leading the way in terms of innovation, because innovation comes from people – and cooperatives, by placing the onus on members themselves to resolve their needs and aspirations, constantly adapt to the demands of a continually-evolving society.

The 8 of March is an opportunity to acknowledge women's contributions to the development of societies and the world, through both paid and unpaid work. In different countries around the world, the Gender Equality Committee of the ICA is showing how cooperatives are supporting women in work-life balance, providing quality and long-term employment

It is essential that we build inclusive, participatory, and integral processes within our governments to create state policy aimed at achieving equality across all sectors through innovative strategies in which women play a defining role in the construction of the country.

We call for the advancement of a solidarity-based economy, as a way out of issues of social disparity, achievable thanks to its values and essence of democratic participation, inclusion, the common good and equality.

Today we want to also remember the role of cooperatives providing job opportunities and social inclusion for women victims of violence. It is our job to put an end to the trafficking of women and girls, female genital mutilation, child marriage, the gender pay gap, femicide, sexual abuse, and workplace harassment.

This is a task for everyone, not only women. Once we are able to offer decent and inclusive education, equal justice, and reject the impunity of those who have committed violence and abuse against women, we will eliminate all acts of violence, hunger, and poverty by investing in projects promoting equality.

We now have the resources to get us closer to, more connected with, and better informed about what is happening in the world. We can draw on globalisation and the relationships we have between countries to think about equality.

We need to confront challenges and generate cross-cutting changes through innovation, considering how societies are transforming. We see that cooperatives can help in this sense.

The cooperative model is particularly well-suited to resolving these challenges because it has the capacity to fully educate the various actors involved in activities through collective and democratic control.

We have the arduous task of contributing to, and joining, the construction of an ideal future, one that is better for all women and girls.   Let us work to make the fifth Sustainable Development Goal “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” a reality!

来源：国际合作社联盟　翻译：黑马哥　编辑：黑马哥