2 rural women walking to freedom & equality, by SQUARCIA Parma, January 2018, pencil on paper, 8″ x 8″ (20×20 cm): handbook cover contest submission for the U.N. Committee on the Status of Women 62: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. The 2 women are depicted as shadows, the faces are not recognizable, meaning that they can be all the women of the world, from all areas, background, class, race, and meaning that the road towards the ultimate goal is not granted, not easy, not fast, not bright, not defined, but is a struggle in progress to reach light through darkness and through shadows: but it is a cause that mankind must fight for, especially in Iran.