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Women in Portugal received full legal equality with Portuguese men as mandated by Portugal's constitution of 1976, which in turn resulted from the Revolution of 1974. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in Portugal in 1931 under Salazar's Estado Novo, but not on equal terms with men. The right for women to vote was later broadened ...
Portuguese women began to migrate independently, although even at the turn of the 20th century, 319 men came each 100 women. [396] The Portuguese were different from Germans [397] or Italians [398] who brought many more women with them. Despite the small female proportion, Portuguese men typically chose Portuguese women, while female immigrants ...
Although the total number of godmothers assigned amounted to 162,186 between 1961 and 1971, it was inadequate to meet the demand and the MNF lamented that "unfortunately, not all Portuguese women realized the very feminine characteristics of this activity". [1] [5] [8] [9] [10] MNF published, with little success, the magazines Presença and ...
The first attempt to found a Women’s Council in Portugal was at the beginning of the 20th century, when Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos endeavoured to "bring together some ladies who speak English - and who wish to collaborate in the feminist movement" in order to meet a visiting Canadian feminist, Sophia Sanford.
The Portuguese Women's Crusade GCTE (Portuguese: Cruzada das Mulheres Portuguesas [kɾuˈzaðɐ ðɐʒ muˈʎɛɾɨʃ puɾtuˈɣezɐʃ]) was a Portuguese feminist beneficence movement, founded in 1916 by a group of women led by First Lady Elzira Dantas Machado (an important advocate for women's activism, a founder of the Republican League of ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Portuguese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Portuguese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: By occupation: Portuguese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Portuguese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, almost one in five Portuguese was over 65 years old. [4] Lately, Portugal has been experiencing a short growth in birth rates. The total fertility rate has climbed from an all-time low of 1.21 children per woman in 2013 to 1.43 in 2022, still well below replacement level.