I know an enormous number of fantastic women in different fields of Ukrainian society. Some 60,000 Ukrainian women joined the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukrainian women make important political decisions. Ukrainian women coordinate civil initiatives. Ukrainian women document war crimes. Women are at the forefront of this battle for freedom and democracy because bravery has no gender. From a gender perspective, the value dimension of this war is very visible.
In democratic countries, women can play any role they want in family and society. In Russia and in autocracies, women play only the role assigned to them in family and society. This is a basis for an authoritarian regime because established relationships between people and society always reflect how a government behaves towards its own people.
To be clear, in this fight with Russia, we Ukrainian women are fighting for our daughters. We want it so that our daughters never face situations where they have to prove to someone that they are human beings.