Manal AlSharif

Manal AlSharif is a Saudi Arabian women who has been fighting for women rights. She was in jail because of driving a car in a country where women are not supposed to do that kind of activities. However, she fight against the government and stereotypes arguing that there wasn't a law that prohibited women of driving cars.

Manal AlSharif spent some days in jail considering that decision as unfair. Then she started an active movement on social media. Now, she is well known all around the world, as a heroine and a defensor of the women rights in those countries where women can not be free. However, some people in her country still considering her as a traitor, because they have so accepted that women have to be behind the men.

My grandmother is arabian, and until today she complains about male chauvinism in arabian culture, and that is one of the reasons why she didn't maintained those traditions and got married with a Chilean man. I can't imagine how is living in a culture where you can't do whatever you want without a man´s consent.

It's specially sad that in the XXI century we still have cultures like those. So rich in many ways, and so poor in another. However, I believe that it is a process of change that already started, and maybe it seems to be a small step, but step by step we can change the whole world, and make it a much more fair than it is. Now saudi arabian women can drive a car without being discriminated and punished. The next step could be the whole women's freedom.