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the age of consent, marked by discrimination and subjugation.
They were stripped of fundamental rights and were unable to
participate in political, cultural or economic life save for a
handful of splendid exceptions. The access to education and
conquest of equality that the women of the Western world —
Spanish women amongst them— have achieved has to a great
extent led to the above absurd, unfair situation being redressed.
However, this same situation still exists, and in fact gets painfully worse, on a large part of the planet.
The 20th century, which for this triumph alone deserves to go down in history as a fundamental
century in the course of our civilization, has not managed to see the desire for this equality to be
universal fulfilled, for total respect and dignity for women is still being violated. However, it fills
us with hope to think that the Spain that moves into the 21st century will be built for the first time
in our history, and forever, on the joint efforts, creativity and talents of Spanish men and women.
Thank you very much.
“Many sacrifices have been required, and many
still need to be made to fulfil each one of our
dreams, to pursue each one of our utopias.”
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