"The Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, once told me right before an interview: «it is a great pleasure to see a young woman like you working alongside so many men. You’re the perfect example of how women can do whatever they want to». That quote stuck in my head and whenever I felt down, whenever I had to run with my 15kg camera on my shoulder to get the perfect shot, that was all I would hear."
EX-CAMERA WOMAN AT TVI
"The Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, once told me right before an interview: «it is a great pleasure to see a young woman like you working alongside so many men. You’re the perfect example of how women can do whatever they want to». That quote stuck in my head and whenever I felt down, whenever I had to run with my 15kg camera on my shoulder to get the perfect shot, that was all I would hear."
EX-CAMERA WOMAN AT TVI
“Travelling was (and still is) a hobby, that became really important in my life since my last trip: I left my job, my house and Portugal to spend 10 months travelling alone. I’m an architect and I decided to be a freelancer so I can work from anywhere in the world. I’m part of the 100 rotas, a group travelling company that opened this year, and I’m the leader for the destination ‘India’. As a woman, I feel that during so many years we fought for women’s role to be just the same as men’s, whether in society, in life or while fighting for something we believed in. We still want and need that equality. Things are changing. Today, despite all the differences, we are who we want to be. I feel so proud to belong to these group of women, it makes me fly so high that I feel that I can travel the world by myself. And that feeling is everything!”
TRAVELLER/ARCHITECT
"I feel empowered because my job needs someone to be close to people and to understand them, and that’s something I’m really comfortable with. However, being a woman in this job can also be a struggle because there’s this group of older people, that have always seen men in this kind of position, that are not that confident or at ease with a woman doing the same. "
MAYOR OF BATALHA COUNCIL
“I feel it was harder a few years ago: when there was an emergency or an accident I was the one in charge and sometimes I felt my fellow colleagues wouldn't like it or would criticize my job without any apparent reason. I had to be twice as good because I was a woman. Today is different, I feel like we all have the same opportunities, there's more respect.”
FIREFIGHTER ASSISTANT CHIEF
“I feel it was harder a few years ago: when there was an emergency or an accident I was the one in charge and sometimes I felt my fellow colleagues wouldn't like it or would criticize my job without any apparent reason. I had to be twice as good because I was a woman. Today is different, I feel like we all have the same opportunities, there's more respect.”
FIREFIGHTER ASSISTANT CHIEF
“My name is Rosa, I’m a Mexican living in Barcelona. I left home for the first time when I was 22 to enjoy new experiences while working in a city close to the beach. At 24 years old, I moved to Spain to study and to work. It hasn’t been easy and even though I have lots of friends here, there were so many times I felt sad and wanted to leave everything behind and just go back to my family. However, when I look back at everything I achieved living in a different culture, working in something I love and being completely independent, I feel so happy and accomplished. As a woman I feel it has been harder to reach my goals, I was questioned too many times about not following the ‘traditions’ of marrying and/or having kids, mostly because that’s still the mindset in my country. But happily, women in my family set the example for me: many of them didn’t follow these said traditions and achieved incredible things without any help. My mom and my grandma have always taught me that we, women, can do everything we set ourselves to and a lot more!”
MEXICAN LIVING IN BARCELONA
“My name is Rosa, I’m a Mexican living in Barcelona. I left home for the first time when I was 22 to enjoy new experiences while working in a city close to the beach. At 24 years old, I moved to Spain to study and to work. It hasn’t been easy and even though I have lots of friends here, there were so many times I felt sad and wanted to leave everything behind and just go back to my family. However, when I look back at everything I achieved living in a different culture, working in something I love and being completely independent, I feel so happy and accomplished. As a woman I feel it has been harder to reach my goals, I was questioned too many times about not following the ‘traditions’ of marrying and/or having kids, mostly because that’s still the mindset in my country. But happily, women in my family set the example for me: many of them didn’t follow these said traditions and achieved incredible things without any help. My mom and my grandma have always taught me that we, women, can do everything we set ourselves to and a lot more!”
MEXICAN LIVING IN BARCELONA
"Apart from being a bus driver, I am also a firefighter. There was this one day I was driving and there was an accident. As a firefighter, it is my duty to help the ones in need. I told everyone in the bus I would be back in a few minutes, I was just going to provide first aid until my colleagues arrived. A male passenger told me I had stopped our route just because I couldn't manage to maneuver the bus out of the accident scene - it was a narrow street - and he left the bus. The thing is, 10 minutes later we were back on track and the passenger was still in the bus stop, waiting for another bus. But it's not only passengers that have this kind of approach, my fellow male bus drivers also show some signs of discrimination. If one of them has a hard time doing a maneuver, for instance, they think it will be even harder for me, they say 'let me do it for you'. I've always said no. And I never needed their help :)"
BUS DRIVER AND FIREFIGHTER
“To be a woman it's not to be more fragile or sensitive. To be a woman is to have the strenght to fight against all the bricks life throws at you. To be a woman is to prove we can do it and we can solve our own problems. I lived with 3 men most of my life and I never felt more fragile or less able because I was a woman. We are all the same, but we, women, are special, as we unfortunately still have to prove that we are just as strong as any men. We are a force of nature and deserve to seen like that.”
FOUNDER OF THE B HEALTHY PROJECT
“To be a woman it's not to be more fragile or sensitive. To be a woman is to have the strenght to fight against all the bricks life throws at you. To be a woman is to prove we can do it and we can solve our own problems. I lived with 3 men most of my life and I never felt more fragile or less able because I was a woman. We are all the same, but we, women, are special, as we unfortunately still have to prove that we are just as strong as any men. We are a force of nature and deserve to seen like that.”
FOUNDER OF THE B HEALTHY PROJECT
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