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The United States Constitution grants congressional voting representation to U.S. states, which Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories are not, specifying that members of Congress shall be elected by direct popular vote and that the president and the vice president shall be elected by electors chosen by the states. [Note 1]
The Women’s March is a peaceful protest to support issues that are important to women. The first one was held around the world on January 21, 2017, on the first full day of Donald Trump 's ...
The 2017 Women's March was a network of global political rallies that took place in cities around the world on January 21, 2017. These "sister marches" were both formally and organically related to the popularized 2017 Women's March, all of which happened in concert.
The Jones–Shafroth Act (Pub. L. 64–368, 39 Stat. 951, enacted March 2, 1917) – also known as the Jones Act of Puerto Rico, Jones Law of Puerto Rico, or as the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act of 1917 – was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on March 2, 1917.
Carmen Consuelo Cerezo (1969): [41] First Puerto Rican female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1980). She is the first female federal judge in Puerto Rico. Aida Delgado-Colón (1980): [42] First female appointed as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Puerto Rico (1982). She ...
In 1928, she pushed for the U.S. Congress to resolve the discrepancies in voting rights for women in Puerto Rico. Faced with the possibility that the federal legislature might give women the right to vote, the Puerto Rican legislature finally passed a law in 1929 granting suffrage to literate women.
Liga Social Sufragista (“the Suffragist Social League”), initially named Liga Femínea Puertorriqueña (“The Puerto Rican Feminine League”), was a women's organization on Puerto Rico, founded in 1917. [1] It was founded by Ana Roque de Duprey in 1917, after suffrage had been introduced at Puerto Rico by the Jones Act exclusively for men ...
At the 2018 SOMOS Puerto Rico Conference, she was part of a panel on "The Grassroots Nonprofit Sector: A Vehicle for Change & Opportunity in Puerto Rico." [ 32 ] [ 33 ] On November of the same year she led the silent "March for Peace and Equity", commemorating the women that had been killed as a result of gender-based violence in the preceding ...