The goal of this exhibition is to remind that the women of Serbia are just as responsible as men for the civilizational progress of our country and society, although it often happens that their merits remain in the far corners of our collective memory, said Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, at the opening of the exhibition “Women in the Cultural Heritage of Serbia”, which was installed in the central Spa Park in Vrnjačka Banja.

Thanking the hosts from the local self-government for their hospitality, the Commissioner said that women were primarily muses and inspiration for male painters, poets, and sculptors in the past. However, some were remembered as the pearls of their time, whose creativity we must preserve even today, in which the patriarchy does not falter.

The Commissioner, together with the Ambassador of Great Britain Edward Ferguson, Dr. Adam Sofronijević from the University Library “Svetozar Marković”, representatives of the local government of Vrnjačka Banja, Ivan Radić and Jasna Trifunović, the Director of the “Dr. Dušan Radić” National Library, Dejan Lučić, and a long-time employee of the Red Cross, Slobodan Dišović, visited the source of mineral water “Slatina” where there is a memorial plaque to British doctors and nurses, as well as the villa “Šumadija” where an allied war hospital was located during the First World War.

The exhibition presents part of about 200 digitized documents and works about women’s creativity and rights from 1867 to 1973. It was created in cooperation with the “Svetozar Marković” University Library, the Embassy of Great Britain, and the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. So far, it has been installed in several cities in Serbia.