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Dominican Republic mother and three female children on a bike in the town of Jarabacoa. Women of the Dominican Republic who belong to the lower-class live in families that have a matriarchal structure, often because the father is not at home. While among women who belong to the middle and upper-classes exist in families with patriarchal structures.
The house in which the Mirabal sisters lived in 1960 is now a museum in Salcedo, Dominican Republic. The Mirabal family were from the central Cibao region of the Dominican Republic and had a farm in the village of Ojo de Agua, near the town of Salcedo. Their parents Enrique Mirabal Fernández and Mercedes Reyes Camilo were landowners in the ...
María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters, [1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
A project by actors, producers and activists Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez puts a spotlight on a family of Dominican women who fought against a brutal dictatorship and gave up everything in the ...
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the Caribbean. The native Taíno people, an Arawakan people, had inhabited the island during the pre-Columbian era, dividing it into five chiefdoms.
The Fourth National Census of Population of the Dominican Republic was raised on 7 August 1960, during the presidency of Joaquín Balaguer, after a decree issued by his predecessor Héctor Trujillo. This census collected information respect on sex, occupation, age, fertility, race, religion, marital status, nationality, literacy, ability to ...
Nov. 14—ASanta Fe fundraising event will commemorate the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with music, dance and a staged reading on weekends from ...
Women's rights in the Dominican Republic (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "History of women in the Dominican Republic" This category contains only the following page.