ms. flores: yes, gender is important.women have always been present, and in the salinas strike of 1970, the strawberry workers, -- they came from texas, who were working in the valleys in california, they were sewing the strike flags. and it was them going, we are to go up to philadelphia. it was the women. and starting the strike, then within the strike itself, women were the ones willing to thearrested with chavez for photo opportunities, making a strategic move to capture more national attention, so it was often women in this male-dominated world of puttingure who were themselves in front of the picket lines and in front of that violence and in front of intenseialized, very discourse in public, so the gender dynamics within mexican american and mexican immigrant emily's -- operating -- it was withnually being tested all sorts of borders, literal and crossing the literal borders and forming relationships with undocumented migrants, and with what a woman was allowed to do and say and perform in the chica no movement and