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The Trinidad and Tobago Succession Act was passed by Parliament in 1981 and Legislation on Property Rights was also passed, revising provisions on real property and women's property rights. As such, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago affirms women's rights to property ownership.
Leonora Pujadas-McShine (1910 – 2 April 1995) was a Trinidadian women's rights activist and community worker. When Trinidad and Tobago granted universal suffrage, she established the first League of Women Voters in the country to educate women on their civic roles. She also was an advocate of equal pay and labour practices.
They sought reform of laws to address illegitimacy and alimony, and pressed to change laws which barred women from participating in governmental boards and councils, or serving as jurors. [5] The Coterie would be the leading women's rights organization for middle-class women in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1920s to the 1940s. [9]
Gema Wellesley Julumsingh, a Dougla, was born in 1910 [1] in Curepe, when Trinidad was part of the British West Indies to Florence (née Arindell) and Julumsingh, an educated man of Indian heritage. Her mother, of White Scottish and Afro-Caribbean heritage died when she was around two years old and her father sent Gema and her younger sister to ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Trinidad and Tobago This category exists only as a container for other categories of Trinidad and Tobago women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Women's rights in Trinidad and Tobago (4 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on 24 August 2024, at 20:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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She has also served on the boards of national and international organizations, including the Police Service Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, [8] as well as Republic Bank, where she was the first woman appointed in 17 years. [3] [9] In 2013, she became the first woman to chair Trinidad and Tobago's Public Service Commission. [2]