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Women in Portugal received full legal equality with Portuguese men as mandated by Portugal's constitution of 1976, which in turn resulted from the Revolution of 1974. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in Portugal in 1931 under Salazar's Estado Novo, but not on equal terms with men. The right for women to vote was later broadened ...
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.
Such entries provide great insights into the role of women in Portuguese society. Freedom for women in this period, would normally have been only possible for those who were engaged in ecclesiastical life. However, Da Gama, did not choose ecclesiastical life: she chose to create a retreat and live in it according to her own rules. [5]
Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510 – 1569), also known as Doña Gracia or La Señora (The Lady), was a Portuguese Jewish philanthropist, businesswoman, and one of the wealthiest women of Renaissance Europe. She married Francisco Mendes (Hebrew name: Tsemach Benveniste).
The custom of a woman adopting a different surname through marriage was not originally a Portuguese-Brazilian tradition. [citation needed] It spread in the late 19th century in the upper classes, under French influence. [citation needed] After the 1940s, it became almost socially obligatory. Not doing so was seen as evidence of concubinage ...
Cassare or calissare (from Portuguese casar, "to marry") was the term applied to the marriage alliances, largely in West Africa, set up between European and African slave traders; [1] the "husband" was European and the wife/concubine African.
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