Ana López-Navajas has been studying female contributions in science, culture and history on book and she found out that their presence was lower than 8% in 2019. And so, she started a project to try and solve such inequality. Different entities and universities from Lithuania, Scotland, Italy, France and Jordan have collaborated with the project.
For four years, Women’s Legacy has created more than 30 work groups among different areas and it has reached nearly 300 collaborators from different countries thanks to international institutions taking action. The project has given some didactic intervention organisms that seek to correct the androcentric vision of culture that comes from the education and rescuing the European women’s cultural heritage.
From its start, the project has built a database with more than a thousand entries. It is the conclusion of a inclusion system in education content to be transferred to other educational systems, with female representation and referents and their work available for the class, categorized by subject and level. It also includes three digital catalogues with female artists’ work in literature, music and art. It is all’available on their website: www.womenslegacyproject.eu. There’s also a training course for teachers about female scientists in STEM.
UNESCO’s Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2024 Women’s Legacy’s nomination was presented by the Spanish Ministry of Equality along with the Spanish Ministry of Education thanks to a proposal from the Institute of Women. This entity became a collaborator in 2023 when it gave funds for the database. "It is thanks to this support that we can go on" states the project’s coordinator.
Currently, Women’s Legacy is being implemented in educational centres from Andalusia, Madrid, Castile and León, Asturias, Basque Country, Catalonia and Valencian Community. There’s also the development of a training programme for teachers of different academic years thanks to the Council of Education of Castilla-La Mancha. "We’re creating a global intervention model that will become a reference for other administrations. Its transferability to different educational systems is one of its strong points. The work groups keep enhancing the project’s reach via training", concludes Ana López-Navajas.
