Let Half The World Stop And Listen To Their Stories
Let half the world stop and hear their stories for the first time. Let women open the way without asking permission and let us see that without them society is meaningless. Let women have their place, their voice in every sense of the word and let half the world stop so that, thanks to feminism, we become equal to the other half.
Do you still think that we now live in an egalitarian world and that feminism is an exaggerated movement? I invite you to think: how many women have a place in your history book? What about chemistry or mathematics? How many women are responsible for departments or leading companies? How many women are judged on a daily basis for being single or for their bodies? Read on and you will be surprised at what half of the female world has accomplished throughout history but has been glossed over as a result of “bad gender”.
Half the world and history or science
Although women’s access to education in Western countries did not occur until the mid-twentieth century and is still not relevant in some countries, women have made important scientific discoveries that have changed. the world. One of the best known was Marie Curie, winner of two Nobel prizes, the lesser known one in physics, shared with her husband Piere Currie and Monsieur Henri Becquerel. But in 1911 she herself won the most famous, in chemistry, by her discovery of radium and polonium.
She wasn’t the only woman in her family to have won a Nobel Prize, did you know that? It is very likely not. His daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won it with her husband in 1935 for the discoveries they made on radioactivity in the pursuit of her mother’s research.
But they are not the only ones,
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And what about historical events? We all know Cleopatra, although it was more for her dates and beauty tricks than for her war techniques or her management of the empire. Something that never happens to men. Hard to imagine a man being judged in history for such reasons, they don’t belong to the other half of the world.
He nevertheless had a number of very important women in history 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, the one of the most prolific inventors in science who has nothing to envy Leonardo da Vinci, or many other brave and intelligent women whom we have never heard of.
Half of the world around us
But that no longer exists, does it not? Today, many people continue to ask this question. I think the answer is that we still have a long way to go for equality. Ask around and listen to the women you know and you will have the answer.
I want half the world to rise up, who could be your own grandmother, and tell us why he couldn’t study. A frequent explanation: her mother went to work in the field, and she, being the oldest of her sisters, had to take care of others, even though she had an older brother.
I want half the world to stand up, people like your mother can be, and tell us why, during Francoism, classes were separated by gender and they learned to sew while they learned science. So they now have better paid jobs than they do.
Finally, I want the young half of the world to rise up, the one who cannot rise up and progress in their work because they decide to be a mother. Because she cannot work overtime and takes more time off work for her medical follow-up, which is her business. Men now help with fatherhood but do not exercise it in the workplace. They rarely go to school meetings because they have to. So that they work double, at home and away, but suffer from the pay gap.
I want half the world to rise up in search of equality. Let us be heard because we have to find our place. Because if we have a chapter in the books, it will be easier for the girls of the future to have a reference in science, history and in life. We don’t congratulate women today, we listen to them, because, although you might not know it, we rarely really listened to them.
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