Questão 53

    Born $\in W$arsaw, Marie Curie became the first woman Professor of General Physics $\in$ the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne (Paris$)\in 1906$. She had Masters Degrees $\in$ both physics and mathematical sciences and was the first woman to obtain a Doctor of Science degree. Madame Curie was also the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. The first was $\in P$hysics $\in 1903$, with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel, for their study $\in$ spontaneous radiation. The second was $\in C$hemistry $\in 1911$ for her work $\in$ radioactivity.

    An indigenous Guatemalan woman of the K’iche’ branch of the Mayan culture, Rigoberta Menchú has dedicated her life to promoting the rights of indigenous peoples. She became active $\in$ the women’s rights movement as a teenager and later was a prominent workers’ rights advocate. In 1992 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize $\in$ recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation for indigenous peoples $\in G$uatemala and is the first indigenous person to receive the prize.

    Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani advocate for girls education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2009, when Malala was just eleven she began blogging about life under the Taliban, speaking out directly against their threats to close girls’ schools. The blog on BBC Urdu garnered international attention while also making her the target of death threats. In October 2012, a gunman shot her and two other girls as they were coming home from school. Malala survived the attack, and, $\in O$ctober 2014, she received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyart.

Felicity Amos. 12 women who changed the world. Internet: www.one.org (adapted)

Judge the following items according to texts I, II and III.

The three women described $\in$ the texts had a common goal: fighting discrimination against women.