Silent architects of peace: women’s essential role in peacebuilding
Women’s participation in post-conflict peacebuilding is not only transformative but essential to lasting reconciliation and recovery.Hey Ladies ✌🏻
Melina Mercuri, the Greek goddess who changed the 20th Century
Actress, singer, politician and convinced Europeanist, Maria Amalia Merkouri was born in Athens in 1920, according to some biographies, and five years later according to others (she never wanted to clear up any doubts). She was born into an aristocratic and politically involved family. Her grandfather was mayor of Athens and her father and uncle were members of parliament.
Inmaculada Alva: “Some feminisms have masculinized women”.
In fact, when we talk about the “situation of women in the past”, we’re referring to a specific situation: that of bourgeois women in the 19th century.
Bourgeois because in other environments, women have always worked outside the home or in family businesses.
The bourgeois idea we’re referring to was that of the “devoted mother”, the “obedient daughter”, submissive to the man and with no aspirations other than marriage and little else.
From the second half of the twentieth century onwards, women began to change this idea and feminisms were born.
Just as I like to talk about feminisms in the plural, I prefer to talk about women in the plural.
Women participate more actively in society, in politics, in their professions, because they also have a lot to say.
In that sense, I think we’ve won.
A New Era in the Life of Law
“I believe that a new era is beginning in the life of the law. Until now we women have lived on the fringes of the law; we have been nourished by the crumbs of the law, so comprehensive and broad, so humane and progressive for men, but so mean and sad, so decayed and harsh for women; you yourselves recognize this, the noble and loyal companions who have cried out against injustice and lend yourselves to remedy it. I am sure that a new era is beginning. A new day is dawning behind the tangled and dour jungle of Law, a new day when the sun will shine for all”.
Mothers of the Constitution
The entry of women into Parliament in 1931 confirmed the ability – and the need – for women to participate in public affairs. Although in numerical terms their presence might seem testimonial (barely 1%), the truth is that their parliamentary activity went much further. And the same happened in 1977, when, taking up the legacy of their predecessors, twenty-seven women, twenty-one in Congress and six in the Senate (barely 5%), took part in the first legislature of democracy. In 1931, of the three, two were jurists. In 1977, of the twenty-seven, five were jurists.
Teaching Law from a Gender Perspective
One of the novelties of the reform of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was that both the teaching and learning processes should be affected by the introduction of the principle of equal opportunities from a gender perspective.
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