This municipal initiative seeks to recover and highlight the role of women in Mungia throughout history, making their social, economic, cultural, and labor contributions visible. The Council states that this research aims to offer “a new perspective on local history, incorporating a gender perspective and supporting a more egalitarian society.”
The research will receive an economic endowment of 3,800 euros and will last four months from its award. Both individual and collective proposals can be submitted, focusing especially on analyzing the role of women in the labor and professional spheres in previous eras. The Town Council has stipulated that projects must include a defined methodology, clear objectives, and a justification from a gender perspective. Experience in research and equality will also be valued, as will the contribution to the historical memory of Mungia's women.
Women have played a very important role in societies as mothers and caregivers of children and dependent persons, and in the role of sustaining the home, which has been socially undervalued.
By extending the deadline, the aim is to facilitate “greater participation and encourage the submission of quality proposals” that allow for the recovery of the municipality's female historical memory and advance in recognizing their role in social construction. The Mungia Town Council launched this research grant with the objective of recovering, making visible, and valuing women's contributions to the municipality. The Council points out that, often, “women have been marginalized from official history” and indicates that living in equality requires “an effort to recover their role.”
Furthermore, they have contributed to political, scientific, social, cultural, and economic development that history, written by men, has concealed. “Entire centuries have been recounted without including women, making them invisible, because the history of men was the History of Humanity,” they argue. In previous editions, studies such as Relatos ausentes. Un estudio de lo cotidiano de las mujeres de Mungia en la Guerra Civil y primer franquismo, by Sebastián Piedrabuena, or about the market vendors of Mungia, carried out by Garazi Albizua and Hegoa Álvarez, have been published.
