A person in your field that you admire

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Julieta Kirkwood was born in 1936 in Chile. In that country she studied sociology and political science, graduating in 1969. Three years later she joined the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, where she became interested in gender theory, an area of research that had been neglected, as there were few sociological studies on the role of women and their rights. It was precisely within this context that she developed as a feminist activist and participated in several organizations that advocated for women's rights, one of the most important being the women's department of the national trade union coordinator.

However, it is recognized that Julieta Kirkwood had a fundamental work because within a critical context (dictatorship and the fall of the feminist movements after the acquisition of the right to vote) she managed to re-found the feminist movement being a pioneer of the second historical feminism in Chile in the 80s.

For this reason, I admire her because she was able to look at what was happening in her time from another perspective and bring to the public debate issues that had been ignored for decades. Along with this, it is important to recognize the legacy she leaves us today because it is thanks to her and her writings that it is possible to understand the situation of inequality in which we find ourselves and where we must direct our efforts to eliminate it.