Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Multiple women's movements started in 1910, which led to the plebiscite in 1937, where women voted for or against women's suffrage rights. Filipino women worked hard to mobilize and fight for women's suffrage in the early 1900s and gained victory after 447,725 out of 500,000 votes affirmed women's right to vote. [2]
President Manuel L. Quezon signing the Women's Suffrage Bill following the 1937 plebiscite. The women's suffrage movement in the Philippines was one of the first, major occasions on which women grouped together politically. It was also one of the first women's rights movements, and endeavored to attain the right for women to vote and run for ...
Association Feminista Ilonga, was a Filipino women's organization that was founded in 1906. [1] It was founded by Pura Villanueva Kalaw. It followed the foundation of Asociacion Feminista Filipina, with the purpose of focusing on women's suffrage. The goal was finally achieved in the 1937 Philippine women's suffrage plebiscite.
It was also her practice to wear a Filipiniana dress during her lecture tours to promote foreigners' interest in the Philippines. [10] During her first trip to the United States, while she was at the Women's International League for Peace 1925, she met Antonio Escoda, a Philippine Press Bureau reporter from Gandara, Samar whom she later married ...
The women's movement organized in the early 20th-century in organizations such as the Asociacion Feminista Filipina (1904) the Society for the Advancement of Women (SAW) and the Asociaction Feminist Ilonga, who campaigned for women's suffrage and other rights for gender equality. [43]
Sofia Tiaozon Reyes de Veyra (30 September 1876 – 1 January 1953) was an organizer of the first Filipino nursing schools and President of the National Federation of Women's Clubs which led the suffrage movement for women of the Philippines. She was a Filipina suffragette, social welfare worker, private secretary in the office of the President ...
Martinez was also a suffragist who was a member of National Federation of Women's Clubs (NFWC), which led the campaign for women's enfranchisement in the Philippines. [9] A cartoon of her as a suffrage campaigner was published in the Manilla Bulletin newspaper. [10]
Her efforts led to the first suffrage bill reaching the Philippine Assembly in 1907. [4] Pura Villanueva wrote a column for the weekly newspaper El Tiempo, and edited the woman's page. Later she edited the Spanish-language section of Woman's Outlook, a pro-suffrage publication (Trinidad Fernandez Legarda was the English-language editor). She ...