The review displays how much less pilgrim ladies in the off-season and less crowded routes, with a masculinization of 60%
PONTEVEDRA, 3 (EUROPEAN Press)
The participation of pilgrims is a little bit the vast majority –51.16% – on the Camino de Santiago, as can be observed from the report ‘Impatto de Xnero no Camio’ organized by the Xunta and presented this Wednesday in Pontevedra by the Conselleira di Advertising of Emprego and Equality, María Jess Lorenzana, and the Director of Tourism of Galicia, Nava Castro.
This is a specific analyze, which integrates a gender viewpoint and the Camino de Santiago, which highlights the high existence of females on pilgrimage, which has become, in accordance to the document, “an interesting vacation spot in equal pieces for gentlemen and ladies, where ladies were being getting far more prominence. “
The report analyzed info from the a long time 2013 to 2019 (excluding 2020 and 2021 thanks to the pandemic) and displays that the range of pilgrims is escalating until eventually in 2019 there ended up no a lot more feminine than male presences, with 51.16 % when compared to 48.84% of men. 2018 was the first in which official routes experienced much more girls than adult males.
María Jess Lorenzana highlighted that this pattern in advance of the pandemic proceeds also this calendar year 2022. Hence, in the initial 6 months, 79,000 Compostelas had been delivered to women of all ages and 72,589 to guys, which signifies 52.1% of the total of girls.
Women Want Significant Year
The Ministry of Equality also highlighted that, as evidenced by this study, gals walk much less than men when the Way is a lot less busy, these kinds of as in small year or on considerably less crowded routes.
In other terms, there is a masculinization, with percentages of gentlemen in excess of 60% in the wintertime months. Even so, the review demonstrates a progressive improve in pilgrimage ladies from month to thirty day period, with a greater concentration in between the months of April and October.
That “girls are protagonists of the Way” is a circumstance that will be taken into account in the elaboration of the Camio Prepare 2022-2027 for the upcoming Holy 12 months, because the Galician govt hopes that pilgrims will be “progressively present on equivalent phrases” on the Jacobin route and that it is “safer and far more available for women of all ages”.
THE PORTUGUESE, THE MOST FEMINIZED
The Portuguese Way is the most feminized of all the routes top to Santiago de Compostela. Between 2013 and 2021 they had been 53.96% of pilgrims. There have been extra females than guys and in a greater percentage than on other itineraries.
Nava Castro recalled that very last July a woman of American origin became the 100,000th worldwide pilgrim of this calendar year 2022, strolling on your own the Portuguese Way.
Representatives of the Affiliation of Non-public Hostels of Galicia (Agalber), who also participated in this overall look in the push, additional that women of all ages are also the the greater part among the the pilgrims of Korean origin and signify 80% of the population of the Czech Republic.
The regional minister concluded that the ‘Impatto di Xnero no Camio’ report reveals that “girls have far more and more autonomy and feel safer in embarking on this experience, by yourself or accompanied”.
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