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Key takeaways. Women in the U.S. were not allowed to finance real estate purchases without a husband or male co-signer until the 1970s. More than 60 percent of all Realtors and property managers ...
Among the women who became educators and made notable contributions to the educational system of the island were Concha Meléndez, the first woman to belong to the Puerto Rican Academy of Languages, [52] [53] [54] Pilar Barbosa, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico who was the first modern-day Official Historian of Puerto Rico, and Ana ...
Benet died on 26 December 1948 in the Hospital Pavia, Santurce, Puerto Rico. [2] In her lifetime, she was honored by many women's groups from North and South America. [57] She is remembered today for her activism in the fight for women's suffrage in Puerto Rico [58] and an analysis of her life points to the impact she had upon gaining the right ...
Liga Social Sufragista (“the Suffragist Social League”), initially named Liga Femínea Puertorriqueña (“The Puerto Rican Feminine League”), was a women's organization on Puerto Rico, founded in 1917. [1] It was founded by Ana Roque de Duprey in 1917, after suffrage had been introduced at Puerto Rico by the Jones Act exclusively for men ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... This is a list of prominent historical Pennsylvania women: Mary Ambler (1805 ...
To this day, the women who made up the Young Lords from 1969 to 1976 struggle to receive the same recognition as their male counterparts. With the publication of Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976 in 2016 by Iris Morales, more information about the role women had in the Young Lords is coming to light and being celebrated.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
History of women in Puerto Rico (2 C, 3 P) M. Miss Puerto Rico (2 C, 18 P) O. Women's organizations based in Puerto Rico (1 C, 4 P) P. Puerto Rican women (6 C, 4 P) S.