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Janelle Penny Commissiong, TC born in 1953, was the first woman of African descent and the first woman from Trinidad and Tobago to win the Miss Universe competition, which was held in 1977. She was awarded the Trinity Cross, the nation’s highest award in 1977 and on September 22, 2017, a street in Port of Spain , the capital of Trinidad and ...
In 2014, Trinidad and Tobago ranked 49th on the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum, with a score of 0.715, down from its 36th place in 2013. In terms of participation in the labor force, the country ranked 87th, with 59% of women participating as opposed to 82% of men.
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.
In today's "Financially Savvy Female" column, we chat with Briana B. Franklin, co-founder, president and CEO of The Prosp(a)rity Project -- a nonprofit empowering Black women with tools for...
Women hold more student debt than men, and Black women, in particular, are bearing the brunt of the burden. The average Black woman graduates with $37,558 in student loan debt, while the average ...
Donna Cox was first elected the 2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election as the member of the House of Representatives for Laventille East/Morvant. [1]In 2007, Cox was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs.
Paula-Mae Weekes ORTT (born 23 December 1958) [1] is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and jurist who was the sixth president of Trinidad and Tobago from 2018 to 2023. She is the first female President of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the second female head of state in Trinidad and Tobago after Elizabeth II and the second female president of African descent in the Americas following Ertha ...
Christina F. Lewis (1919 – 21 November 1974) was an Afro-Trinidadian community worker, trade unionist and women's rights activist. Through her political activities, she worked to improve the conditions of workers and women, advocating for universal adult suffrage and for British citizens of the West Indies to have the same rights and privileges as their counterparts in Britain.