On Wednesday, journalist Olga Viza participated in the podcast of stretching the gum to recall his early days, discuss the industry and retrace his career. He talked about the difficulty of broadcasting sporting events or the responsibility of communicating the news. He also evoked the moment when he was fully aware of the differences between the sexes within a newsroom, in full coverage of the 9/11 attack: “That is the day when I saw very clearly that there is a difference between men and women, that there is an impressive reconciliation problem,” he said in the space presented by Carolina Iglesias and Victoria Martín. Viza explained how, as the hours wore on, her classmates got nervous and hid to make phone calls, trying to get someone to pick up their kids after school so they could continue writing. “I saw nervous aunts, some crying and running down the stairs because they were leaving behind the news of their lives, the news of their careers, because they had to go find their children. I haven’t seen a single worried boy.”
👉 We women entered the job market, did “most” men do the reverse accompaniment?
👉 Is work reconciliation just a matter of families / schools or should they help companies?
👍Olga Viza in “Stretching the gum” which talks about 9/11 pic.twitter.com/vxrhMjwAi5— Miriam C. Leiros (@MiriamLeiros) June 30, 2023
Today, more than two decades later, the outlook hasn’t improved enough: according to study Gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work after the pandemic, released last February According to the Social Observatory Fundación la Caixa, men dedicate 28 hours a week to childcare and housework, while women spend 43.35% more. A statistic that does not take into account the impact that the mental load has on women’s lives, that planning, organizing and decision making work at home which is mostly assumed by them.
The woman who gave voice and face to six Olympics and three World Cups can boast one of the most respected and admired careers. She wanted to be a doctor, but in the end her letters won out. She already showed her ways when at the age of 13 she made a newspaper at home to give to her grandmother, La Carmen, «because then she fascinated us Times and all this”. He came to sports journalism to replace Mercedes Milan at the helm of Sports Center, in 1987 on TVE, and says that at the time he didn’t find machismo because “there were five of us, we were the novelty. There was no problem”. The problems came later, “the following generations have already had more difficulties, the involution has begun. Because, ‘how much aunt, we can bear five… but no longer 20’.
Olga Viza presented the electoral debate between José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy in 2008. Photo: Sat
He currently collaborates on the evening program of Antena 3And now Sonsoles, where, according to what the presenter, Sonsoles Ónega, told her a week ago, Viza gives her advice on space: “Olga tells me ‘this is good, this is bad, this is normal. If Olga does it, it’s the word of God”. Winner of an Ondas and two TP Awards, in January I harvested the National Award for Communication of the Generalitat. The government then underlined in a statement that “he has been a point of reference for female journalists with his work in a particularly masculinized field such as sports journalism”.
In 2017, she also received the Margarita Rivière award for journalistic rigor with a gender perspective. In stretching the gum She also evoked the moment she felt they were covering up sexist murders poorly and decided to change everything. Today it is very clear to him: “By default, always next to the victim until proven otherwise. And be very careful.”
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