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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;izotz, post: 241220, member: 5446&quot;]For further information...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10930.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10930.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10930.shtml</a></p><p>And finally,</p><p>Congress will today debate a Socialist proposal that the Government work towards sexual equality on the Euro coins with an equal number of men and women featured on the currency. The Socialists have even named the first women they would like to see featured – Clara Campoamor, who worked for the right to vote for women in Spain some 75 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>And from a Basque communications site : </p><p><a href="http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_52865/life/PROPOSAL-IN-SPANISH-PARLIAMENT-Coins-will-also-be-sign/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_52865/life/PROPOSAL-IN-SPANISH-PARLIAMENT-Coins-will-also-be-sign/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_52865/life/PROPOSAL-IN-SPANISH-PARLIAMENT-Coins-will-also-be-sign/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Coins will also be sign of equality</p><p><br /></p><p>06/12/2007</p><p>The Spanish Parliament will expectedly pass a draft that will ask the Government to include women&#039;s pictures crafted on euro coins. The first will be Clara Campoamor&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Spanish Parliament will debate a draft proposed by the Socialist Party PSOE demanding the Government to reflect equality policies on coins as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The initiative, that will be expectedly approved, would include women&#039;s pictures crafted on euro coins. The first would be Clara Campoamor, main defender of women&#039;s vote during the Spanish Second Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the proposal, socialists remind that since 1868, when the peseta was elected as only coin in the Spanish State, women&#039;s images on coins have only been allegorical. That is why they think it&#039;s time to catch real women&#039;s images on euros.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, the initiative was designed as a &quot;tribute&quot; and &quot;compensation to so many women ignored&quot; that &quot;played a decisive role&quot; in different fields. </p><p><br /></p><p>/++++++++++++++++++++++++/</p><p>This is not completely true! : There have been some women&#039;s images on coins not only allegorical, but they have been just a few.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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