Las Tunas, (Writing Tiempo21). - Panamanian women debate today on a bigger participation in the political life, better wages and overwhelming actions against the violence at home, as main problems inside their society.

When the world commemorates today the Woman's International Day, the Panamanians see as an illusion the rules about equality of gender that establish a 30 percent of the feminine participation in the candidacies to electoral positions, since the results of the last elections reflect only a 10 percent of 883 women postulated to diverse positions.

According to a wire from Prensa Latina news agency in the National Assembly, they only obtained six of the 71 seats to deputies.

A research by the University of Panama revealed that in the cases of women and men with same academic level, the first ones receive inferior wages until 28 percent and as regards employment, the unemployment rate among the women was 8,9 percent in the 2009, while for the men it was 5.1.

Together with it, the institution noticed on the phenomenon of the violence at home, because this year 19 women died as result of these acts, while last year 80 women lost the life for similar cause, in contrast with 42 victims in 2008, which requires of overwhelming actions to stop that tendency.

Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino