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On March 8, 2000, the Campaña Internacional por un Salario para el Trabajo en el Hogar called the first International Women's Strike, demanding the women's right to justice for their unrecognised contribution to the workforce. [11] The movement was especially active during the years 2000-2001. [12]
Teresa Perales Fernández [1] (born 29 December 1975) is an S2 classified Spanish swimmer, politician and motivational speaker who has won a total of 28 Paralympic medals at the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Verónica del Socorro Alcocer García was born on 26 May 1976 in Sincelejo, capital of the department of Sucre. [6] [7] She is the eldest of three children and her husband has claimed that she has Italian ancestry.
Ana María Matute Ausejo (26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was an internationally acclaimed Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. [1] [2] In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria.
The organization began in 2003 [3] under the direction of Ruth-Gaby Vermont-Mangold, then a member of the Swiss National Council, as an initiative to nominate 1000 women from over 150 different countries for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. [4]
The Unión de Mujeres Americanas (Union of American Women, UAW) was founded in 1934 by Mexican women's rights activist and suffragette, Margarita Robles de Mendoza.The purpose of the organization was to develop ties between women in the region to fight for the civic and political rights of women throughout the Americas and improve women's social and economic situations.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas (Blame the Tlaxcaltecs) is a short story by Elena Garro, published by in 1964 as part of the collection La Semana de Colores. [1] In the work, Garro uses magical realism in order to convey a message about the role of women in society.