My grandmother had huge piles of women magazines, dated prewar, war and postwar.
When I asked, as a little girl, why, she said that women were important and I would understand later.

I never did.
When she died, my uncle and mother who cleaned the house threw them all away.

Quite some years later my son asked my opinion about him becoming a parachutist.
I was immediately aware he was making one  of my dreams for myself come true. So I kept some distance and told him he should follow his dreams.
He did. And became a very good para, jumping with WW2 canopies.

When my kids were grown up enough for me to start training too, the age limit was lowered just a few days before and it was not possible anymore to train to become a parachutist in my country, The Netherlands. (And I don't have money enough to go to another country....)

Again I felt excluded.

In the meantime I was trying to find some acknowledgement for the history of my family. They had been in the resistance during WW2.
I was also trying to find out more about the role of my father, who fled the country when the Germans were searching for him, went to England and joined the RAF.
I was suddenly called a 'RAF-daughter', and it was like someone gave me a place in history.
I didn't do anything in WW2, and still got respect.

Then I remembered my gram: 'women are important'.
It opened my eyes for the lack of knowledge about women in WW2.
They were not only landgirls, but also jumped behind the lines, flew airplanes and did a lot more.

So I'll be researching this, instead of searching the skies for the earth....