"For thousands of years, people all over the world believed that women were inferior to men and could never be priests, teachers, or rulers. It took a lot of people all over the world doing a lot of brave things to change the story of women. One of them is Malala Yousafzai, who was born in 1997 in the town of Mingora, Pakistan."
------
This excerpt from my children's book 'Unstoppable Us: Why the World Isn't Fair' attempts to condense thousands of years of painful history and to celebrate the revolution that gave women a choice/voice – in a way that's digestible for middle-grade readers. Let's hope that in the future, equal opportunities will prevail and this text will read like science fiction. Happy International Women's Day.
Illustration: Ricard Zaplana Ruiz