Let half the world stop and tell your stories for the first time, that women make their way without asking permission and realize that without them society doesn’t make sense, that women have their space, their voice in every way, and that half the world stops so that, through feminism , we can be equal to the other half.
Do you think we already live in an egalitarian world and that feminism is an exaggerated movement?I invite you to reflect: how many women have you seen in your history book, what about chemistry or mathematics?How many women run departments or companies?Read on and you’ll be amazed at what the female half of the world has done in history, but it’s been silenced for belonging to “bad sex. “
- “It is only after women begin to feel comfortable in this country that we see a Luxembourg Rose.
- A Madame Curie.
- They brilliantly demonstrate that it was not female inferiority that determined their historical insignificance.
- -Simone de Beauvoir-.
Although women’s access to education in Western countries did not occur until the mid-20th century, and in other countries it is not yet a reality, women have made important scientific discoveries that have changed the world. One of the best known is Marie. Curie, winner of two Nobel laureates, one of the best known, physics, which she shares with her husband Piere Currie and Mr. Henri Becquerel. However, the most unknown, that of chemistry, won only in 1911 for the discovery of radio and polonium.
She wasn’t the only woman in her family to win a Nobel Prize, you know that?It’s quite possible it isn’t. Her daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, won it with her husband in 1935 due to discoveries they made about radioactivity while continuing their mother’s studies.
And they are not the only ones, Gerty Theresa Cori, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin or Rosalyn Yalow, among many others, also won this prestigious physics or medicine award, but you have never found them in your science or history books. Women are systematically silenced by our achievements when they belong to fields where men tend to be a majority, and even in those where they are not.
What about historical events? We all know Cleopatra, although more than by his fighting techniques or the management of his empire, we know her for her cases and her beauty tricks, this never happens to men. It is hard to imagine that a man is considered in history for these reasons, they are not part of the other half of the world.
Even so, there are women who were very important in history and who do not usually appear in books. Ada Lovelace, who laid the foundations of modern computing, Ellen Swallow Richards, mother of environmental engineering, Sarah Mather, inventor of the periscope, Emily Warren Roebling, architect who led the construction of the famous Brooklyn Bridge, Beulah Louise Henry, one of the most productive of a science that does not lose to Leonardo da Vinci, or many other brave and intelligent women that we have not heard.
But it doesn’t happen anymore, right? Today many people ask that question, I regret to say that the answer is that we still have a lot to do for equality, ask, listen to the women you know and you will know the answer.
I want you to go halfway around the world, maybe she’s your grandmother, and say why she couldn’t study, a common explanation: her mother worked in the field and she, being the eldest of her sisters, had to take care of the rest of the children, even if they had an older brother, because they were the only providers in her future family and she would be more supported.
I want people like your mother to face half the world and tell you why during Franco’s diet classes were divided by sexes and learned to sew learning science, that is, they currently have better-paid jobs than them.
And finally, I want you to raise the young half of the world, the one who can’t get up and progress in her job because she decides to be a mother, because she can’t work overtime and she’s further from work because she has to. take care of your family, because it’s “women’s thing. ” Men, even if they contribute to fatherhood, do not exercise it at work. They rarely go to school meetings because it’s “women’s stuff. “This half of the world works twice as hard, outside and inside the house, but suffers the pay gap.
I want half the world to rise up in search of equality, let’s make ourselves heard because we have to find our space. Because if we have a chapter in the books, it will be easier for girls of the next generation to have a reference in science, history and life. We have to listen to women, because even if you don’t know, we rarely really listen to them.