The ceasefire between the United States and Iran has temporarily halted the escalation, but it leaves a difficult image to ignore. For days and weeks, and also in various scenarios of the Spanish State's political arena, the war was justified in the name of Iranian women. Their oppression, lack of rights, feminist struggle. All presented as a moral reason to bomb the country.

We read in the ARA about the book by British journalist Ellen AtlantaVirtual Diva(Deusto, 2025), where he criticizes the business ofinfluencers"as a symptom of what millions of girls and women experience today," who "feel compelled" to imitate and admire her content. The publication discusses the model andinfluencerKylie Jenner, who embodies a "patriarchal beauty standard that is becoming increasingly strict, but disguised as female empowerment."

1. If today is Monday, March 9th, it means there's one year left until International Women's Day. I wonder how we'll get there in 2027 if, locally or globally, we continue to take so many steps backward at such a rapid pace. Equality—if it is true equality, it must be without nuances or footnotes—still seemed a long way off, and suddenly, regression is more than just a palpable threat. It's a stark, bitter, and daily realization that the gains we've made are in danger. The far-right wave sweeping the world and the fundamentalism common in religions rooted centuries ago are striving to subjugate women once again to limits that seemed to have been overcome. Irrelevance, dependence, complementarity transformed into inferiority, being told "don't say much" and "you have an opinion, but not much" are the new social condemnations. This is what Katherine Graham, the editor of the Washington PostWhen her husband made her feel, at all times, like she was the tail of a star. The nucleus of the comet that shone, of course, was him. Always him and only him.

That we are starting with artificial intelligence using biased algorithms is no secret. The dangers of using AI without regulation have been demonstrated and emphasized, whether for personal purposes, in a company or institution, or, even more alarmingly, for disseminating content on social media. Achieving ethical algorithms, aligned with democratic values ​​and incorporating a gender perspective, is an objective that is being pursued, especially in Europe. Women experts in this field are shedding light on a rapidly advancing technology that seems difficult to control and in which, as in the world of... big tech, There's a lack of women.

Reviewing the latest Prime Video hits, it's easy to spot a pattern: films for the platform centered on teen love stories are bound to win. The latest example is Tell me in a whisper, a Spanish production about the love triangle between Kamila (Alícia Falcó) and brothers Thiago and Taylor Di Bianco (Fernando Lindez and Diego Vidales), whom the protagonist hadn't seen for seven years. The romantic relationship patterns in this film are toxic, but that doesn't seem to matter to its audience, who have devoured it.

I've had the opportunity to observe female entrepreneurship both through social research and my own experience. This dual perspective allows me to state quite emphatically that when women become entrepreneurs, they not only create companies, but they also silently challenge the model of leadership and success that we have thus far taken for granted. It's not just about how many companies they run, but about how they design them, what relationships they build, and what kind of impact they seek.

In today's interconnected world, defending women's rights and sexual and reproductive rights is a shared responsibility.

With another March 8th approaching, feminism is facing a disastrous situation. The movement is suffering setbacks worldwide, and according to the results of a survey published in this newspaper, 60% of men in Spain believe they are being discriminated against simply for being men. Data like this neither surprises us nor is it foreign to our society. Often, in the very articles I write each week, there are men who automatically feel... offended Just for using a feminine adjective. Even if the adjective could include me, a woman, it doesn't matter if we're talking about the beacon scam or living past 100. These are individuals, almost always anonymous, who cling to the tradition of thinking only of themselves. Nor to the tradition that women can be discriminated against. But woe betide them if a generic term doesn't make them feel included! (They are there, but they want to maintain their status. Besides, they shouldn't be everywhere, either.) These men are terrified of losing what they believe is their birthright. But these men's feelings are also tied to egocentrism and a deliberate desire to harm. Because, seeing the state of the world, they show not even the slightest empathy for verifiable facts and for a fundamental reason: demanding human rights is exhausting. We have other things to do in life. But we want a fairer life for everyone. And we want to use adjectives however we please.

We read in the ARA The number of female managers in France has been steadily increasing, thanks to the law that requires companies with more than 1,000 employees to have at least 30% women on their management and executive committees. By 2029, the percentage of female managers must reach 40%.

For no less than nineteen centuries, the inferiority of women to men was not questioned, and we sometimes forget this. To take just one example, at the end of the 19th century, Gustave Le Bon, a French sociologist and physicist, wrote: "There are a great many women whose brains are more like the size of a gorilla's than a man's, which is more developed. Those who have studied women's intelligence, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that it is closer to that of a child or a savage than to that of a civilized adult man."Anthropology Review, number 2, 1879).

Alice B. Sheldon (Chicago, 1915 - McLean, 1987) signed her books with the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.: she chose a generic name like James and took the surname Tiptree from a jam jar. Women than men They don't see It is a collection of twelve stories written between 1962 and 1973 that functions as a perfect trap: it seems like adventure science fiction, but in reality, it is a highly precise piece of ideological dissection. Sheldon doesn't imagine distant futures to escape the present, but rather uses them to make it intolerably visible, anticipating current debates on feminism, sex, and environmentalism.

They have grown alongside the fourth wave of feminism and the rise of equality policies, but Young people are less feminist than before. Sixty percent of men in the country believe that progress toward equality has been so great that they are now being discriminated against simply for being men, and almost half believe that too much is expected of them to achieve equality between men and women. These are some of the conclusions of a large survey conducted by Ipsos and King's College London to mark International Women's Day. The report, published this Thursday, reveals marked differences between generations of men regarding gender roles. "It is worrying to see that attitudes toward gender equality are not more positive, especially among young men. Many Gen Z men not only place limiting expectations on women, but also confine themselves to restrictive gender norms," ​​laments Julia Gillard, chair of Ipsos Global. A total of 23,000 people from 29 different countries participated in the study. The authors warn that, globally, young men are more likely than those of previous generations to hold a "traditional view" of gender roles. Although respondents in Spain are more supportive of equality than the average found in the research, with more than half considering themselves feminists (44% of men and 59% of women), the results indicate that feminism is declining worldwide. In fact, in Spain—and this is unique to Spain—the percentage of people who believe that enough has been done to achieve equality is decreasing, falling from 55% in 2019 to 48% in 2026, a drop of 7 percentage points. A global decline

Across all the countries surveyed, 31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband, and a third say that the husband should have the final say in important decisions. Thus, Gen Z men (born between 1997 and 2012) are twice as likely as men of their generation to hold these views. baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) of having traditional views on decision-making within marriage, since only 13% and 17% of the baby boomers They agreed with these statements respectively.

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March 8th is coming again, and many women will once more take to the streets to denounce all that remains to be done to achieve equality, and, above all, to highlight the unbearable violence of all kinds that, once again, seems to be escalating against us. How distant that March 8th of 2018 seems, when girls, mothers, and grandmothers flooded the streets, and for a moment, we thought that the path toward true equality was finally unstoppable!

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Elisenda de Moncada, the third wife of James II the Just (1267-1327), founded the Pedralbes Monastery In 1325, she never took her vows there as a nun: she lived within a monastery that allowed her, once widowed and childless, to maintain her status as a pious queen, as well as the power and influence she had once held. Written documentation exists about the queen and founder of the monastery, but her tomb may reveal much more about her and the noblewomen who accompanied her. The results of the exhumation and study of the queen's tomb, who wished to be buried between the cloister and the church because she did not want to lose either her status as queen or that of a penitent, and of the 14th-century tombs surrounding it, are among the information that will be made public in May to commemorate the 700th anniversary.

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Feminism is in retreat. Half of young Spanish men (51.5%) believe that feminism "is only used as a political tool for manipulation and indoctrination," according to the latest Youth and Gender Barometer published this Tuesday by the Fad Youth Foundation. Almost a decade has passed since the emergence of the Me Too movement and the massive demonstrations that placed feminism in its fourth wave, but today the population between 15 and 29 years old identifies as less feminist than their older counterparts.

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The female bust is not just a part of the body: it is a symbolic territory. Large or small, visible or concealed, perky or pendulous, it has historically been an instrument used to measure, classify, and, above all, discredit women. On February 10th, on the program The Anthill On Antena 3, this mechanism was activated with unsettling ease. Panelist Rosa Belmonte dismissed fellow commentator Sarah Santaolalla—following her criticism of Felipe González—with a phrase that didn't challenge any ideas, but rather reduced her interlocutor to her physical appearance: "half stupid, half tits." The knowing laughter from the studio audience, including that of host Pablo Motos and the latest Planeta Prize winner Juan del Val, wasn't anecdotal. It was part of the ritual.

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María Guardiola is no longer what she used to be: while in 2023 she distinguished herself as one of the most moderate figures in the People's Party (PP), distancing herself from the far right—although she ultimately formed a coalition with them—and until a few weeks ago resisted yielding to Vox's demands, now she's surrendering to Santiago Abascal's party. "The feminism I defend is the feminism that Vox defends," she said this morning in an interview with Ok Diario, words that have not gone down well with the PP at the national level and which Guardiola herself has since been forced to clarify. The PP leadership in Madrid has disavowed her: "There's too much noise and not enough serious work," said the party's deputy secretary, Carmen Fúnez, when asked about the Extremadura president's remarks.

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Historiography has traditionally argued that guilds were an exclusively male institution. Only men could be members. But new research refutes this. The shopkeepers' and resellers' guild was mixed for 145 years, between 1624 and 1768. There were master resellers, but what prompted the guild to accept them was not ideas we now consider modern or feminist, but rather the need to balance its books. Years later, women were once again barred from membership.

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Every February 11th, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated to highlight women's contributions to scientific progress. This year, there is also another celebration: the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first draft of the human genome, based on the almost complete sequencing of all our chromosomes. This milestone—having our instruction manual—opened the door to understanding why humans are the way we are. Since then, enormous strides have been made, and articles will surely be published about the many important scientists who have contributed to this progress. But on the occasion of February 11th, we must also remember the pioneering women scientists who made significant contributions to laying the foundations of the DNA and genome era, beyond Rosalind Franz. Today, it is worth remembering two contemporary researchers, Martha Chase and Maxine Singer, both deceased, two very different faces of the difficult path women have taken in the world of science.

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It's true that actress Elisa Mouliaá has the right to accuse a man of sexually harassing her. She has the right, later, to recant (due to pressure or whatever). And she has the right to accuse him again. But it's also true that when she says she wrote to her friends that night that he had harassed her, she's not talking about "proof," but at most an "impression." And it's true that the judge was rude to her, but he was no less so to him.

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