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Filipino women worked hard to mobilize and fight for women's suffrage in the early 1900s and gained victory after 447,725 out of 500,000 votes affirmed women's right to vote. [ 2 ] Counterarguments against women gaining the right to vote in the Philippines were stated due to the fact that it would ruin family unity, giving less power to the ...
President Manuel L. Quezon signing the Women's Suffrage Bill following the 1937 plebiscite. The women's suffrage movement in the Philippines was one of the first, major occasions on which women grouped together politically. It was also one of the first women's rights movements, and endeavored to attain the right for women to vote and run for ...
Even as American women won the right to vote in 1920, women in the Philippines, then an American colony, were not accorded the same right. As early as 1919, Alzona spoke in favor of conferring the right of suffrage to Filipino women, in an article she published in the Philippine Review. [7]
It was in 1937 when women were able to gain the right after a referendum. [ 1 ] Sevilla had also worked in the field of journalism, in which she became the editor for Spanish daily La Vanguardia , and established The Woman's Outlook , a magazine published by the General Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines.
Representation and integration of Filipino women in Philippine politics at the local and national levels had been made possible by legislative measures such as the following: the Local Government Code of 1991, the Party List Law, the Labor Code of 1989, the Women in Nation Building Law (Philippine Republic Act No. 7192 of 1991), the Gender and ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Sofia Tiaozon Reyes de Veyra (30 September 1876 – 1 January 1953) was an organizer of the first Filipino nursing schools and President of the National Federation of Women's Clubs which led the suffrage movement for women of the Philippines. She was a Filipina suffragette, social welfare worker, private secretary in the office of the President ...
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.