Tales of Passion - Isabel Allende's talk

To my mind, Isabel Allende’s talk was very touching and strong. We can understand her life’s work and mains ideas by listening to her presentation. The way she brought the main subject, that is feminism, sexism and the feminine part of the world, was striking: she talks about powerful women, but also beauty, things that can matter to every women, but that becomes insignificant as soon as you think about what women can endure in the whole world. The other thing that stroke me during this speech was the examples she used, and the great heart every women she talked about had. Also, the great thing about her way of talking and expressing herself, is that she just has hope for a good world and is not here to give you a lesson. She just tells you stories that can touch you and makes you ask yourself questions.

Of course, I can just agree with everything she said. I guess that sexism is everywhere at different levels. There are countries where women still don’t have rights. We are lucky to live in countries where women have rights, they can work, they can play any sports they want... But sexism still exists. In France, we can say that, as a woman, you do not endure sexism daily but there are still discriminations, not in the way of living - most women work and the percent of house wives decreases - but the best example would be salary. However we can see progress in France, for instance, in the government there are more and more women ministers, and we also have, since the last government, a ministry of women’s rights. To me, it is very important to have equity in the government, to have equity in our society. Nowadays what we can assist in France is, I hope, the future of many other countries. But I guess that the creation of association for women and  the volunteering are more and more present and useful to the women of the world.