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On September 17, 1937, women's suffrage was legalized in the Philippines, after the required threshold for the plebiscite of 300,000 was surpassed. 447,725 women affirmed their aspiration to vote, against 33,307 no votes. [13] The Philippines was one of the first Asian countries to allow this right for women. [14]
Multiple women's movements started in 1910, which led to the plebiscite in 1937, where women voted for or against women's suffrage rights. 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]
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. [5]
She was also president of the Women's Club of Manila. [ 5 ] Books by Pura Villanueva Kalaw included Osmeña From Newspaperman to President (1946), [ 6 ] How the Filipina Got the Vote , Outstanding Filipino Women , Anthology of Filipino Women Writers , The Consumer Cooperatives in the Philippines , The Filipino Cookbook , and A Brief History of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pecson also became active in women's groups. She became involved in social work as co-founder, board member, treasurer, and first vice-president of the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines (NFWCP) and as a suffragette who advocated for Filipino women's right to vote – which was granted on April 30, 1937, following a special ...
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.