Seville, Oct 10 (EFE) .- The writer Elvira Lindo, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard, María Dolores Gimeno or the badminton champion Carolina Marín, are some of the protagonists of the 2020/2021 school co-educational calendar published by the Andalusian Institute of Women (IAM) that seeks to give visibility to relevant Andalusian women in various fields.
With the title ‘Girls of yesterday, women of today’, the initiative seeks to highlight the work of significant women in areas such as sports, cinema and literature, education, science, law or the army, according to a statement from the Junta de Andalucía.
The calendar has a brief profile of each woman, represented in their childhood and as adults, links to deepen their figure and their work, as well as co-educational events and the purpose is “to make visible and recognize the contribution of women in the different facets of history, as well as adding to the collective imagination the name and surname of significant women in their fields of action “
The protagonists are: the writer Elvira Lindo (September), the Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard, María Dolores Gimeno (October), the activists against gender violence Ana Bella Estévez (November) and Flor de Torras (March), the champion Athletics White Betanzos (December), Physics and Chemistry Teacher Ana Alonso (January), Chemistry Cristina Romera (February), Computer Science Nuria Medina (April), Pilot Rocío González (May) or Badminton Champion Carolina Marín (June), the rancher Pilar Gómez (July) and the actress Maggie Civantos (August).
For Cádiz, Elvira Lindo Garrido, creator of Manolito Gafotas, has in her extensive literary production all kinds of genres and awards as well as a strong social commitment, and María Dolores Gimeno Durán has held various positions in the Civil Guard from the Central Fiscal and Anti-Drug Unit from Madrid to the Technical Office of the Director General, where she currently works with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In Seville, Ana Bella Estévez is the creator of the Ana Bella Foundation to Help Battered Women, an eleven-year survivor of mistreatment by her ex-husband and the Ana Bella Women’s Network has 25,000 volunteers in 72 countries, and Rocío González Torres was the first Spaniard to add 1,000 flight hours in a jet, she is commander of the Air Force and in 2003 at the General Air Academy in San Javier (Murcia) she was the highest grade in the promotion and the first woman to achieve ranked number 1 (Top Gun).
By Huelva are Blanca Betanzos Orihuela, at 26 years old world champion in athletics, has Down syndrome and has three bronze medals and twenty-two gold medals at both regional, national and European levels, and Carolina Marín Martín, who with 16 years , won the European Under-17 Badminton Championship and has since won four absolute European championships, three world championships and a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Córdoba is represented by Ana Alonso del Pozo, professor of Physics and Chemistry at the IES Poeta García Gutiérrez in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), Gold Medal for Merit in Education in 2017 and who died this year for what the IAM has dedicated the calendar to his figure and his legacy, and by Pilar Gómez Fernández, who has worked for more than 30 years in innovation of dairy cattle and extensive beef cattle and elected president of the Association of Agro-food Cooperatives of Andalusia (AMCAE -Andalusia).
For the province of Jaén, the calendar includes Cristina Romera Castillo, a researcher chemist at the Institute of Sea Sciences-CSIC in Barcelona and a researcher of carbon compounds, and Flor de Torres Porras, Medal of Andalusia in 2014 for her fights against gender violence and has developed initiatives related to equality in Argentina, Bolivia, Morocco and Guatemala.
In Granada are Nuria Medina Medina, tenured professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática y de Telecomunicaciones (ETSIIT), who has participated in numerous initiatives to promote the presence of women in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) , and for Málaga, Maggie Civantos, graduated from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Málaga, with artistic projection on the small screen with roles in series and has shown her image in campaigns such as ‘Save a Girl, Save a Generation’, against female genital mutilation. EFE
