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To the Young Women of Malolos
RATIONALE This famous letter was written by Dr. Jose P. Rizal while he was residing in Lodon, upon the request of Marcelo H. Del Pilar. The story behind this letter is there was this group of twenty young women of Malolos petitioned Governor-General Weyler for permission to open a ‘night school’ so that they might study Spanish under Teodoro Sandiko. But the Spanish parish priest, Fr. Felipe Garcia, objected their petition and so that the Governor-General turned down their request. However, the young women of Malolos, in rebellion of the friar’s wrath, bravely continued their agitation of the school. Until they have finally succeeded in obtaining government approval to their project on condition that Señorita Guadalupe Reyes should be their teacher. Del Pilar requested Rizal to send him a letter in Tagalog to the brave women of Malolos. Accordingly, Rizal, although busy in London annotating Morga’s book, penned this famous letter and sent it to Del Pilar on February 2, 1889 for transmittal to Malolos. Rizal asked himself when he was writing the Noli Me Tangere, whether ‘bravery’ is a common thing in the women of our people. And there was, it is true, an abundance of girls with agreeable manners, beautiful ways, and modest demeanor, but there was in all an admixture of slavery and deference to the words or whims of their so-called ‘spiritual fathers’ due to excessive kindness, modesty, or perhaps ignorance. They seemed faded plants sown and reared in darkness, having flowers without perfume and fruits without sap, according to Rizal. Rizal’s letter to the young women of Malolos, is his way of recognition for them as brave Filipinas who are no longer blinded by the fraud religious believes brought by the friars. He also wrote this letter
ISSUE: Importance of women is not recognized
RESOLUTION: Equality of jobs

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