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Their smiles greet me. They know I\u2019ve come to learn about their working lives\u2014stories they are proud of. It has been a life of struggle and constant work, and telling it, despite the initial nerves, is always very satisfying. It is something like a reward for the perseverance of those who paved the way in a world that, even today, still has \u201ca little bit left to overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00c1ngeles Prada N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/strong> has been an administrative technician<\/strong> for 38 years\u2014currently also Head of Human Resources\u2014at the Valdeorras slate company Vazfer. She sums up that time, curiously, through the three most important milestones of her personal life: \u201cI was single when I arrived, and now I already have two grown-up daughters.\u201d A few minutes into the conversation, she highlights what has always been the company\u2019s greatest value for her: \u201cI\u2019ve never had problems balancing work and family life.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00c1ngeles Prada ejerce como t\u00e9cnico administrativo en una empresa de pizarra en Carballeda de Valdeorras.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00c1ngeles\u2019s long-standing role and her ability to analyse and empathise with people make it easier for someone unfamiliar with the sector to understand it from the inside and see its evolution. She describes it from a position of remarkable experience, examining every step taken in the incorporation of women into a world initially reserved for\u2014and identified with\u2014the male gender.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom when I started to now, it\u2019s a huge gap; technology has transformed the work and eliminated the differences between men and women, because nowadays a woman can carry out the same tasks as a man.\u201d In fact, she explains, \u201can example is our warehouse supervisor, a highly trained person who is a true professional in the job she does at this company.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00c1ngeles V\u00e1zquez has worked for 38 years in the slate industry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Noelia P\u00e9rez Casa<\/strong>s is a warehouse supervisor<\/strong> at Vazfer, and she too has paved the way. Her lively gaze and the way she moves give her away: we are looking at a self-made person, for whom life has not been easy and who is where she is today because, as she says herself, \u201cI\u2019ve earned it.\u201d Organising work in a warehouse requires both knowledge and determination \u201cin equal measure,\u201d a desire to improve \u201cand to learn how the overhead crane, the forklift, or that new machine I don\u2019t yet understand works.\u201d<\/p>\nNoelia P\u00e9rez is a supervisor in a slate warehouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The first company in the sector where Noelia worked took a strong interest in her continuing her education. Her expression softens as she recalls that when she arrived in the slate industry, \u201cshe was very young, and they strongly encouraged her to keep studying.\u201d This even allowed her to work for years in other occupations, without ever fully leaving behind her passion for slate, to which she returned years later \u201cwith even more enthusiasm.\u201d By then, things had changed so much that \u201cassociating warehouse and quarry work with brute strength exercised only by men had become a meaningless clich\u00e9, because today the work can be done equally by a man or a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the initial difficulties typical of earlier times, both women encourage new generations of women to enter the slate sector, \u201cwhere people earn a salary with good working conditions, even better than in other sectors that require higher qualifications.\u201d<\/p>\nNoelia on a forklift in the slate warehouse where she works as a supervisor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Her determination sometimes led Noelia to demand \u201cthat I be placed where I deserved\u201d and later \u201cthat I be given the pay grade that corresponded to me,\u201d something that, she explains, many of her male colleagues never had to demand. Her struggle, like that of other women who paved the way, has made it so that today \u201cthings are completely different,\u201d even though, as \u00c1ngeles says, \u201cthat little bit that\u2019s still missing\u201d has not yet been fully resolved as a society\u2014and remains something we must continue to work on \u201cas we always have.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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