Woman. For millennia, they have been exploited by man, relegated to a
subordinate role, considered inferior both by various cultures and religions
that exist even today in many places. Some cultures still force women to hide
and be veiled, stay at home for the children and chores without access to
social life or education. She is often an object of prey and possession by
man, looked at as merely a matter of pleasure and use.
Yet several historians claim that art was born in the prehistoric age from the
sensibility of the woman. While the man was hunting, the woman developed
an artistic sense, giving rise to artifacts, music, their culture and other artistic
forms of which man then took possession.
In the West, only a little over a century ago, thanks to the courageous
movement for women’s rights, women have traveled that has led, at least on
paper, to a closer parity with men.
In many parts of this world, women can finally access every level of
education and make a contribution showing their competence, sensi
