How do you summarize 300 years of feminism history in one hour? Esther Nin-Camps, founding partner and member of the board of directors of 50a50, has managed to do it in the online conference “We did it! Brief history of feminism“, where she has projected it as a trailer for a movie that is being shot at this time.

“The protagonists of this story are women and women’s associations. Perhaps in 100 years another Esther Nin-Camps will explain the history and we will appear: we have the responsibility to continue working to advance towards equality,” said the speaker.

With the aim of continuing to offer tools for personal growth and learning, within the framework of the 50a50 training action line, the session has firstly focused on the theoretical bases. “Feminism is linked to democracy, ours is the house of freedom and democracy. It is a political theory, although it has also been a social and ethical movement, and advocates that the fact of being born a woman cannot imply that we have fewer rights”, Esther Nin-Camps said.

Nin-Camps has also explained that the opposite of equality is inequality, and it is not differentiation. In addition, she has mentioned diversity: “Women are not a category of diversity. We are the half of all humanity, we are transversal to all other diversities.”

The historical review of feminism in the session “We did it!” included three waves: the first during the Enlightenment, the second with suffragism, and the third after 1960, with the debate on sexual and reproductive rights and parity.

“Women have been educationally marginalized and therefore we have been marginalized into history. At this point, we now need to come to power in the feminist agenda. From a theoretical point of view, we already have equality, but the patriarchy is powerful and does not move from its chair. With equal merits, equal opportunities, we have to continue working to achieve this “, Esther Nin-Camps concluded, who is a lawyer specialized in International Law, currently director of the International Legal Department of Banc Sabadell, in addition to being a professor at ESADE, the UB and the Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona (ICAB).