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Weaker sex:
Women regarded collectively.
Women regarded collectively.
Oxford Dictionary
It's been said time and time again that in the world there is a strong sex and a weak sex, in an attempt to limit what women can and can't do. From a young woman in the Peruvian highlands, rescuing a millenary tuber, an activist in one of the unsafest districts in Lima, and a student who aspires to provide clean energy to the whole Amazon, women in Peru are showing that they are no weaker sex, and contrary to that, they are the ones who are building a generation of equality.
This generation walks on the road that previous generations of women started paving for them decades ago; from a position of disadvantage where they've been historically relegated to. This inequality is still very real in Peru and the rest of the world. Women don't earn as much as men for the same work, they don't achieve the same level of education, have fewer opportunities for employment, have less access to basic services, and they have it harder to participate in decision-making spaces, so they are often left out of politic leadership. And if it wasn't enough, this inequality – in different forms and spaces, like their security; In Peru, there's an average of 12 femicides a month.
