THE PALACIO WOMEN

Abstract

"We have to recognize, with Miguel de Unamuno, that the advance of a country is measured by the change in the role of its women", the Ecuadorian professor Matilde Mora Witt writes in this essay, in which she analyzes the role that women play in the literary work of the writer Pablo Palacio, a role always inlluencing his political options and his ideological convictions. 100 years after his birth, la flor del ojal, el bastón respetuoso, are resurrected as proof of the foregoing, regarding his conception of women. Palacio was, as in literature, an advanced thinker, and a prophet.