Wikiesfera is one of a handful of groups around world trying to ‘make women visible’ on user-edited site
Patricia Horrillo and the group gathered in a back room of Madrid’s La Fabulosa bookstore.Patricia Horrillo and the group gathered in a back room of Madrid’s La Fabulosa bookstore.
In recent years the foundation has provided support to groups such as Horrillo’s Wikiesfera, offering them a helping hand as they seek to right this imbalance. “For the first time, civil society has the power to make women visible,” Horrillo said. “History has always been told by those in power – now we have that power.”
For years she had scrambled to cobble together female-focused content for her students, hoping to offer them a glimpse of the achievements of women that were all too often lacking in textbooks. “At one point I sat down with a textbook and went through all the references of men and women – the difference was mind-blowing.”
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