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Who are the women who made history?
Who are the women who made history?
There are many noteworthy women that can impress us with their iconic story. They can let us think about how unfair gender inequality is and how women can be as powerful as men.
COCO CHANEL
COCO CHANEL
A woman who has revolutionized and overturned the history of fashion
Coco Chanel is the most powerful and paramount woman in the world of fashion. Coco is considered iconic and she has invented the most known perfume of all times, Chanel n°5.
She has to be remembered, but not just for it...
Coco knocked down all the stereotypes on women dress-code introducing pants for females.
Coco Chanel is a very inspirational woman figure because she reivented herself from being a cabaret singer to becoming the woman that created her own empire in a world still ruled by men.
Today her own brand "Chanel" is international and one of the most crucial in the fashion world. Despite Coco died in 1971, her concept of style and elegance is still present and admired nowadays.
Francesca P.
GRETA THUNBERG
GRETA THUNBERG
She's the daughter of the opera singer Malena Ernman and the Swedish actor Svante Thunberg. When she was 13, she was diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder (said OCD), selective mutism and attention deficit disorder. But, nevertheless, at only 16-years-old has become an icon of climate change and of the environment.
It all began on 20 August 2018, the day of the "school's first climate strike", when she went under the Swedish Parliament to ask for help for the environment, reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
So, many guys took her as an example and they went down to the square to protest, remembering that even a single protest can help "The Burning World".
Greta is among the 25 most influential teenagers in the world.
Giorgia Z.
MICHELLE OBAMA
MICHELLE OBAMA
The outstanding FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States) Let's introduce you the marvelous Michelle Obama: good-natured and gifted student, a passionate piano player, a girl who is not afraid to make mistakes, and a women full of determination! Michelle Robinson Obama was the most important first First Lady of all.
Michelle Obama is a potent symbol of what is good about America. She reminds us that an Afro-American girl from the poorest end of town has the potential to do and be anything. And not to simply become First Lady, which was a role forced upon her. By determination and hard work, she got to Harvard and Princeton and carved out a highly successful career in her own right. But when she arrived on campus after HighSchool, she was shocked by how few Black students and teachers there were. Angered by this inequality, Michelle knows that she must speak up for those less lucky than herself and vows to do all she can to make the world a better, fairer place.
THE AMERICAN DREAM
Initially Michelle tirelessly supported her husband Barack Obama in the long trips before the election campaign and presidential tours but she did not cover only her role as the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Michelle is too intelligent a woman not to take full advantage of her role: she chose some causes (the education of girls and support for female workers) and became a tireless champion. She visited schools to emphasize the importance of studying and supported the "Let's move" campaign to promote sport among children along with a healthy lifestyle. During her husband's second political term, the role of First Lady that Michelle Obama had chosen was reconfirmed: loving wife, careful mother, activist in the fields of education and health.
Over the course of eight years, she has championed women’s rights: still today, as a powerful woman, Michelle continues to support women's rights and education in numerous and effective speeches loved and admired by many.
- Francesca P.
ANNA FRANK'S DIARY
ANNA FRANK'S DIARY
It all began with a diary, called "The Back House", written by Anna Frank. Anna was a young Jewish girl, who was born in Francoforte. She was living a normal life when, a day, Hitler took the power, creating laws against the Jews. It was a beginning of the Second World War.
Therefore, she and her family had to leave to Amsterdam, where they hid in a back house. Anna started to write her own diary. When her family was caught by police, they were taken to Auschwitz, the concentration camp. There, Anna, her sister Margot and her mother were separated from her father because they were put in different groups, one female and one male.
Anna kept her dream to be a writer, until the last second, when she died in Bergen-Belsen, in 1945 at the age of 15.
The only survivor was her father that published his daughter's diary, hoping that everyone could learn from these tragic events.
Giorgia Z.
A strong girl, who lived in hell, but still dreamed...
A wise girl knows her limits,
a smart girl knows that she has none.
(Marilyn Monroe)
Giorgia Z.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, A Feminist Manifesto.
“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.”
(Francesca P.)
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
"One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world"
Malala was born in the Swat Valley, in Pakistan, in 1997. At only 11-years-old, she has opened a blog where she told about the abolition of music and TV, and even the closure of her female school; this implied that girls couldn't receive an education. Therefore she and her family had to run away, because their life was not safe any longer because of extremists.
Malala began to gain fame, so on 9th October 2012, while she was travelling home from school, she was shot on the head. She had to fly to the UK where she was cured. She has set up the Malala Fund to pay for girls' education to create important and cultivated women, like lawyers or scientists.
On 10th October 2014, at only 17-years-old, Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize. After she became the youngest winner, she continued more and more to defend girls' right; that's why Malala Yousafzai is a great and mind blowing young woman.
Giorgia Z.
TWO POWERFUL SCIENTISTS AND DOCTORS FROM DIFFERENT CENTURIES
MARIE CURIE
MARIE CURIE
1867-1934
In 1903 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (together with her husband Pierre Curie and Antoine Henri Becquerel) for their studies on radiation and, in 1911, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium, whose name was chosen by the scientist in honor of her land. Marie Curie, the only woman among the four Nobel Prize winners, is the only one to have won the Prize in two distinct scientific fields.
Riccardo V.
RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
1909-2012
In the fifties, with her research, she discovered and illustrated the growth factor of the nerve fiber (in this case of the axonal structure), known as NGF. For this discovery she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986. Also awarded with other prizes, she was the first woman to be admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. On 1 August 2001 she was nominated Senator for Life by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi "for having honoured the homeland with outstanding merits in the scientific and social field". She was a national member of the Accademia dei Lincei for the Physics class and a founding member of the Idis-Città della Scienza Foundation.
Riccardo V.
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
The first obstetrician in Italy...
Maria Dalle Donne was a woman from Bologna that lived between 1700 and 1800. Like all the other young women, she had to work in the fields but Maria was born with a malformation at her shoulders so she was not skillfull enough for this kind of work. Therefore, the shoulder's malformation allowed her to study. Maria attended the medical school and followed Laura Bassi's example . She made many disputes of Obstetrics to which scientists, intellectuals and professors rushed. They were amazed both by her extraordinary culture and by the elegance with which she expressed herself in Latin. Then, she became the first of all obstetricians in Italy.
That's a really valid example that shows how disabilities aren't something always bad, but they can help us achieve an unexpected dream and make the best of our skills.
Francesca P.
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The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the style she has, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years. „
― Audrey Hepburn
-Francesca P.
ROSA PARKS a strong and a tenacious woman
ROSA PARKS a strong and a tenacious woman
How her "no" changed the history of civil rights.
What happened ?
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old African American Rosa Parks refused to get up from her seat on a bus and gave it to a white woman. It was a common gesture in the days of apartheid in the United States. The woman for this action was arrested. Her action caused a stir and inspired the boycott of Montgomery buses in 1956, by the Afro-American community. The case of Rosa Parks reached the Supreme Court of the United States of America, which declared unconstitutional segregation on Alabama public buses. the vote was unanimous. From that moment Rosa Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement .
Her fights
Rosa Parks, before making the action that caused so much stir in 1943, joined the American movement for civil rights and also became secretary of the "National Association for the Advance of Black People". In 1955 she began attending an educational center for workers' rights and racial equality. In 1987, she founded a self development institute in honor of her husband, Raymond Parks. Rosa Parks until the day of her death in 2005 has always openly fought for civil rights in a very delicate situation and for this she received a gold medal in recognition of her commitment..
Did you know ? In the last years of her life, Rosa Parks published her autobiography entitled "My Story". In In one of the pages she talked about her action, which had already been accomplished years and years earlier: „People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.“
Francesca P.
“ Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard”
Francesca P.
-Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger
Hermione, interpreted by Emma Watson, is the typical character very smart, competitive and diligent at school, in addition she's the best friend of the protagonist. She's one of Hogwarts' best magicians.
But who is she really?
She's a very rational girl, with a great intelligence and a huge rapidity of thought. And, in addition, she's really courageous and noble.
Without her the trio of protagonists wouldn't have come out alive from all those adventures.
Hermione is the example of a wise and strong woman who knows how to love.
But is the actress really like that?
Emma Watson
Emma Watson
Emma is a French girl, daughter of parents lawyers, who makes her first appearance on TV in the role of Hermione, in Harry Potter, so she became an important actress.
During a ONU interview , Emma gave an important speech about gender inequality and of how to fight it. But, in particular, she said that the problem was masculinity stereotypes and the expectations from male. So she created a movement called "HeForShe" and based on the improvement of women's conditions. To carry on this project, she needs male help. Only in this way, we will have gender equality.
Therefore, Emma has certainly a very strong character and she shows it with her many battles for human and woman's rights.
So, the answer to the previous question, is yes: Emma has the same character as Hermione, but Emma fights for human rights, while Hermione fights to save the world!!
Giorgia Z.
Me? Cunning and many books.
There are more important things:
friendship... and courage.
(Hermione Granger)
Giorgia Z.
"For the record, feminism by definition is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of political, economic and social equality of the sexes.
I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was 8, I was confused for being called bossy because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents, but the boys were not. When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly. When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
I decided that I was a feminist, and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently, I’m among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men. Unattractive, even.
Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?"
(Emma Watson's speech)
Giorgia Z.
CARTOONS (by Ludovico M.)
CARTOONS (by Ludovico M.)
We have 3 characters that deserve to be mentioned
We have 3 characters that deserve to be mentioned
Lisa Simpson
She is a girl in a cartoons that talks about the american dream, she has a nice brain and she represents the reason and the goodness, she became become famous and much beloved especially when she had to create a toy to compete against a sexist one.
Ludovico M.
Mulan "A bold princess"
She lives in China in a war period, and the governament decides to choose one male person from every family, but her dad is disabled so she chooses to go to save her dad. Mulan will have to hide that she is female, but she will save China and she will be eventually recognized as a soldier from her captain, and she will get the respect from the Chinese Governament.
Ludovico M.
Tiana
"An unstoppable and inspirational princess"
Unlike her sister who would kiss hundreds of frogs to become a princess, Tiana dreams to open her own restaurant like the dad.
But she will have to fight against the stereotypes about her skin's colour. Tiana's life will be totally changed when she becomes a frog after a kiss from the Prince. This kiss will give her the true love and, after a lot of hard work, she will finally open her own successful restaurant: Tiana's Place .
Ludovico M.
We got some advice for you
We got some advice for you
An inspirational book...
KEEPING THE HOPE ALIVE - HAWA ABDUI
KEEPING THE HOPE ALIVE - HAWA ABDUI
In Somalia there is a woman who, despite great difficulties, runs one of the few active hospitals in the country, as well as a school and a refugee camp that hosts thousands of refugees, mostly women and children. Dr Hawa Abdi is the Somali gynecologist who is the protagonist of this story. "Armed" first only with her grit and then also with the support of her daughters, Hawa has built a miraculous hospital citadel in the fierce chaos of war."
Riccardo V.
And what about a film?
And what about a film?
HIDDEN FIGURES
A film that celebrates the role of women.
An example of 3 mind blowing women.
Inspired by a true story.
The story of three African American scientists, Katherine Johnson, Dortohy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who worked at NASA in the early 1960s collaborating on the US space operation.
We won't spoil you anything else...
Go and watch it!
-Francesca P
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