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After years of being excluded, the women of Cuba began to play an active role in the government. The Federation of Cuban Women wanted to see women involved with the social, political, economical, and cultural issues Cuba faced. [14] This required the building of schools and programs to provide multiple services to Cuban women.
Along with Afro-Cuban women, women in Cuba, formerly a marginalized group, were able to gain higher educational levels and equal advancements in their respective careers. [5] The 1975 Family Code was designed to allow Cuban women to share the household duties fairly with their spouses. [6]
While much of the rhetoric surrounding the Cuban Literacy Campaign was focused on the creation of a new and better kind of man, it is important to recognize that with this came revolutionary changes in the roles of women in Cuba. While the campaign was mostly targeted towards men, over half of the educators who volunteered to further the effort ...
Since the Cuban revolution there have been different national sex education programs coordinated by the Federation of Cuban Women and the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba. In 1972, the National Sex Education Working Group (Spanish: Grupo Nacional de Trabajo de Educación Sexual) was founded as its own entity to develop and coordinate these types of activities in Cuban institutions and society.
The Cuban regime’s denial of a travel permit to dissident Martha Beatriz Roque ought to give pause to American, Canadian, British and Australian women who visit the oppressive island for fun ...
Maestra is a 33-minute documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, about the youngest women teachers of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. In 1961, Cuba aimed to eradicate illiteracy in one year. It sent 250,000 volunteers across the island to teach reading and writing in rural communities for one year. 100,000 of the volunteers were under 18 ...
For example, a group that was created to help women and furthers to improve women's rights in Cuba. While women's rights didn't change immediately and there is still a struggle with women's rights, education and changes in the workforce had the biggest impacts on women.
The Federation of Cuban Women (Spanish: Federación de Mujeres Cubanas) [1] (FMC) was established in 1948 by a group of activists including Mirta Aguirre, María Argüelles, Edith García Buchaca, Ana M. Hidalgo, Celia Machado, Candelaria Rodríguez, Caridad Sánchez, Cipriana Vidaurreta, and María Josefa Vidaurreta as the Federación Democrática de Mujeres Cubanas (Democratic Federation of ...