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The issue was first raised in the mid 19th-century, when Thaddeus O'Malley of the University of Malta introduced a School of Midwifery at the University of Malta in 1841, but the attempt was short-lived, and the first women at the University of Malta were Tessie Camilleri and Blanche Huber, who became the first two women to graduate from ...
From 1947, Malta had limited self-government. Voting rights for women were raised by the Women of Malta Association and the Malta Labour Party against loud protests from the Church. The proposal was adopted by a narrow majority. The clashes spurred Barbara to show what women could do, so when people encouraged her, she stood for election in 1947.
She is known for her work for women's suffrage on Malta. Malta was a British colony, but when women's suffrage was finally introduced in Great Britain in 1918, this had not been included in the 1921 Constitution on Malta, when Malta was given its own parliament, although the Labour Party did support the reform. [2]
The Women of Malta Association or Women of Malta – Nisa ta’ Malta, was a women's organization in Malta, founded in January 1944. It played an important role for the women's movement in Malta, and successfully worked for the introduction of women's suffrage.
Myriam Spiteri Debono [a] (born 25 October 1952) [1] is a Maltese politician who is the 11th and current President of Malta. She is the first Gozitan woman to be elected to the position. She was also the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta [2] [3] from 1996 to 1998, the first woman to hold that position. [4]
In 2015, Helena Dalli led the process for the establishment of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which the UN now commemorates annually on 11 February. [12] [13] Dalli was also instrumental for the restructuring of the Malta Medicines Authority. Dalli was re-elected from two districts in the 2017 general election.
Evelyn Bonaci was born on 29 November 1916 in Sliema, Malta. [1] Several members of her family were politicians associated with the Malta Labour Party: her husband Louis unsuccessfully ran for the Parliament of Malta in the 1953 and 1955 elections, while her brother-in-law, Cikku Bonaci, was an MP and government minister.
Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia (née Vella; 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017) was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta and was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers, and subsequent assassination by car bomb.