Women of the World, Unite

Lately they achieved an unprecedented milestone when the bill for the upcoming plebiscite to approve a new Constitution to be voted on October 25 was approved in Parliament: 50% of those who write it will be women.

Of course, in the understanding that the plebiscite will be approved, like all polls indicate, it will take place. This will be an unprecedented event in the constitutional history of the world.

The struggle of women in Chile has a long history which begins with the arrival of the Conquistadores in the 16^th century, and continues in the 300 years that the Mapuche people resisted Spanish colonization first before surrendering to the nascent Chilean state, in the 19^th century.

The names of Guacolda and Fresia, wives of Mapuche warriors, were masterfully recorded in the epic song La Araucana written by Alonso de Ercilla and published in Madrid in 1569, and forever engraved in the imagination of the Chilean people.