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International Council of Women – founded in the year 1888, first international women's organization; International Federation for Research in Women's History – founded 1987, organizes international conferences; International Federation of Business and Professional Women – founded 1930, network for professional women
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 ...
It includes women activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Portuguese women activists" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
UMAR, an acronym which stands for Alternative and Answer Women's Union in Portuguese (União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta), is a Portuguese women's rights organization founded in 1976. From 1976 to 1989, the acronym originally stood for Antifascist and Revolutionary Women's Union ( União de Mulheres Antifascistas e Revolucionárias ).
Pages in category "Portuguese women's rights activists" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.