Troncalidad vizcaína y mujer

Abstract

our people with boldness and without discrimination. The women who preceded us in the fight for equality in the private legal sphere found themselves confronted with values and traditions that were part of a society and a legal framework in which the apparently neutral rules incorporated elements of subordination and inequality between women and men as if it were the most natural thing in the world. However, the private legal systems of the Historical Territories of Vasconia offer us clear examples of institutions, protagonism and participation of women in conditions of equality and non-discrimination, which we must always appraise and analyse in the social and historical context in which they occurred, within family, traditional and customary practices. With regard to our own Foral Civil Law and the provision of professional advice and the interventions by the associations of lawyers and the courts, the situation that we present and analyse in relation to the legal position and participation that women have obtained in order to achieve respect and equal opportunities in the exercise of their legal capacity and their ability to act, and to combat discrimination, will be very different. “Our past – and the pioneers who acted as our vanguard – provides a lamp to illuminate the doors to the future” (in the words of the French philosopher Félicité Robert de Lamennais, 1782 - 1854, a liberal Catholic priest who has been said to be one of the precursors of Christian socialism).