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Women, decisions, and martinis
Las mujeres, sus decisiones y los martinis
Rosana Granja Martinez
Universidad de las Américas
City:
Quito
Country:
Ecuador
Original article (miscellaneous)
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ABSTRACT:
Hollywood believes that single women lose their
will and even strength. Series such as “One hundred days
to fall in love”, “Suits” or “Sex and the City”, portray us in
inappropriate ways if we consider everything, we have achieved
by ourselves and everything we are capable of.
Not only have
we won Olympic medals, but also (every single day) we woke
up to be mothers, businesswomen, teachers, and, of course,
writers. Therefore, this miscellaneous article seeks to share a
preliminary discussion regarding the role of jurist women in
Ecuador.
KEYWORDS:
law, women, cinema, social and economic rights,
genre studies.
RESUMEN:
El cine cree que las mujeres que carecen de una
relación heterosexual se tornan carentes de decisión, voluntad
y fuerza inclusive. Series conocidas como “Cien días para
enamorarnos”, “Suits” o “Sex and the City”, nos retratan
de formas inadecuadas si consideramos todo lo que hemos
alcanzado por nosotras mismas y todo lo que somos capaces
de hacer. No sólo ganamos medallas olímpicas sino que todos
los días nos levantamos a ser madres, empresarias, profesoras
DOI 10.26807/rfj.vi11.453
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y en este caso escritoras. En ese orden de ideas, este artículo,
presenta una reflexión sobre el rol de las mujeres juristas en
Ecuador.
PALABRAS CLAVE:
derecho, mujeres, cine, derechos
económicos y sociales, estudios de género.
JEL CODE:
F16, J01.
INTRODUCTION
These days we’ve been wondering what a woman looks
like. We check literature, Instagram, and Facebook and we turn
to those who monopolize much of the world’s attention: cinema.
In our classes, law professors and others use films
to exemplify realities to facilitate the understanding of the
students; and, on this occasion, there is no exception because
only in this way, we can explain to the reader what a woman is
like in the world (Schultz, 2020; Yang and Li, 2009).
The truth is that the movies look at women as indecisive,
perverse, calculating, clumsy for business, capricious, and
dependent on a male relationship to assume themselves as
complete if you do not believe us, please refer to the following:
a)
Undecided:
The Netflix series called “100 Days to Fall
in Love” told the story of two Mexican women facing
divorce with children. The plot revealed that they
needed to be in a relationship to take life seriously;
being single or divorced automatically turned them
into a worthless entities that harmed their hard-earned
businesses and their children’s mental health.
b)
Perverse:
We can also be so if you think of the poor good
husband who is devastated when his wife irrationally
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asks him for a divorce. Indeed, Scarlett Johanson was
the bad guy in “About a Marriage”, because she goes so
far as to ask for a divorce from her “loving, caring and
supportive husband” without any betrayal, heartbreak,
or mistreatment. The film highlights the characteristics
of the “split” man, shows how devastated he was, how
sorry he was, and of course how wrong his wife was to
ask him for a divorce, but he never understands that
she was dissatisfied because marriage is not only based
on the social standards, we have about the husband but
on the satisfaction of all kinds that he can provide to
his partner.
c)
Calculators:
In “the law of the bold” or “suits” when
Jessica takes control; somehow, she becomes this cold
calculating character, that we all come to hate, although
we know that if the same decisions were made by a man
we would qualify him as an entrepreneur, brilliant, a
great businessman.
d)
Clumsy for business or career:
of course, we are not
businesswomen, because when we reach fifty far from
being at the peak of our lives or professions; we are
content with the partner we chose to survive, and the
Martini we can drink with our girlfriends, as happens
in the new season of “Sex and the City”.
e)
No one achieved an economic advantage and rather
they relaxed on a professional level leaving their
happiness to depend on their day-to-day life and the
bland husband.
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1. THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN IN FILM
We think even “Wonder Women” puts us in a situation
where the woman becomes capricious because the object of her
desires almost ends up destroying the world.
We could cite several examples containing these and
other negative references to women, but we would exceed the
scope of this review and take up too much of the reader’s time.
The truth is that the cinema sees us this way because the
world does too, and the truth is that we are more, much more.
We women are strong, intelligent, leaders; and, yes,
why not, scientists, here is an example. As a matter of trust
and evidence, we can refer to the job of three great women
academics who wrote with genius during the pandemic when
tempers were running high because of the tragedy:
a)
Dr. Patricia Alvear (2022) wrote a chapter entitled:
“Abuse of dominant position in a situation of
economic dependence and public aid in the
Ecuadorian system”, which details how Ecuadorian
law confused the abuse of economic dependence
with that of market power, leaving unpunished the
acts committed by operators without a dominant
position.
b)
Professor Francesca Benatti (2022) of the
Università degli Studi di Padova, in a chapter
entitled “Women in the United States Federal
Supreme Court: a journey” details the legal work
of women in high legal spheres in the USA since
1600 with the hostile and patriarchal environment
characteristic of each era.
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c)
The researcher María Belén Vivero (2022), wrote
another chapter “Sustainability: Unorthodox
objective of competition law”, and with it, she
clarified that sustainability is not circumscribed
purely to an economic or environmental concept,
but could be applied transversally in competition
law with a special regulation to comply with the
2030 objectives.
2. WOMEN RESEARCHERS
If a series were really to be made that obeyed how we
women are, it would have to be taken into consideration that we
are scientists. Then, we investigate, we doubt, we are curious.
We can also have nerves of steel in the most extreme
circumstances, like Isabel Robalino who was not only the first
to graduate in law at the Central University and fight for the
rights of workers but who lived over a hundred years providing
Ecuador with the best legal material because she was brilliant.
We are strong. It is not only because we won an
Olympic medal in weightlifting with Neisi Dajomes. And the
silver medal with Tamara Salazar (CTV, 2021). But because
every day we get up to fulfill our dreams. Despite we live in a
world that often closes its doors to us owing to misperception
of what a woman can be.
We are smart, like Carolina Serrano who for her
extensive work in innovation was placed on the list of innovators
under 35 years old in Latin America by the MIT Technology
Review.
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CONCLUSIONS
In short, women are more than the expression of
popular culture about us, we are what we want to be or what,
in a vulgar sense of the expression, we want to be and not an
inch less.
The entertainment world considers women without
any kind of heterosexual relationship to be weak and have
uncontrolled lives (Siegel and Meunier, 2019). Shows like “100
Days to Fall in Love”, “Diaries of a Passion”; “Love Rosie” and
even “Game of Thrones” diminish the leading role of women
when it comes to their love interests.
Even though women have shown strength, they seek
to perpetuate the belief of submission and dependence on the
male sex (Siegel and Meunier, 2019).
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Received:
10/01/2022
Approved:
17/06/2022
Rosana Granja Martínez:
Professor of Law at University of the
Americas.
Email:
rosana.granja@udla.edu.ec
City:
Quito
Country:
Ecuador
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-6246