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The Movimento Democrático de Mulheres (MDM) had its roots in earlier women's movements in Portugal, such as the Liga das Mulheres Republicanas (League of Republican Women), which operated from 1909 to 1919, the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas (National Council of Portuguese Women - CNMP), which functioned from 1914 to its closure by the Estado Novo in 1947, and the Associação ...
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 ...
In 2024, we have yet to reach gender equality. And in many nations, women are not only put second, but also repressed, abused, and silenced. Learn how to help.
Portuguese and Spanish are the main work languages OAS: 4 (English, French, Spanish) Organização dos Estados Americanos Washington, D.C., United States OIAS: 2 (Spanish) Organização dos Estados Ibero-americanos Madrid, Spain: PATHF: 3 (English, Portuguese) Federação Pan-Americana de Andebol Guaynabo, Puerto Rico: Rio Group: 2 (Spanish ...
The Organization of Mozambican Women (Portuguese: Organização da Mulher Moçambicana OMM) is the women's section of FRELIMO.Founded in 1973, during the Mozambican War of Independence, in recognition of women's growing roles in the conflict against Portuguese colonialism, the OMM was created as a non-military structure to promote women's education, emancipation and mobilization.
Tavares da Silva organized an Exhibition of Portuguese Books on Women. The XVII European Exhibition of Art, Science and Culture of the Council of Europe was held in Lisbon in 1983. Noting the absence of reference to women in the various exhibits, she researched female participation in the Portuguese Discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries ...
The Women's National Movement (Movimento Nacional Feminino – MNF) (1961–1974) was an organization that supported the right-wing Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal under the prime minister António de Oliveira Salazar.