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Women in Uruguay are women who were born in, who live in, and are from Uruguay. According to Countries and Their Cultures, there is a "very high proportion" of Uruguayan women participating in the labor force of the South American country. The Uruguayan legislation maintains that the women of Uruguay have equal rights to power, authority, and ...
Paulina Luisi Janicki (1875–1950) was a leader of the feminist movement in Uruguay. She was born in Colón, Argentina on 22 September 1875 into a family of educators. In 1909, she became the first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree. Luisi represented Uruguay in international women's conferences and traveled throughout Latin America and ...
Claudia Inés Umpiérrez Rodríguez (born 6 January 1983), best known only as Claudia Umpiérrez, is a Uruguayan association football referee and lawyer by profession. She has worked in FIFA international competition since 2010. She has been a first category referee [a] in Uruguay since 2016. On 4 September of that year she became the first ...
Beatriz Ramírez Abella (born 1956) is a Uruguayan feminist and activist working for Afro-Uruguayan rights. She is an anthropologist and educator teaching about class, ethnicity and gender and the biases surrounding these issues. She is the current director of the Uruguyan Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES) (National Institute of ...
Cotidiano Mujer ( Everyday Woman) is a Uruguayan feminist collective based in Montevideo. The group's mission is to contribute to promotion of social, cultural, and political change that works towards gender equity and democracy among women in Uruguay and Latin America. [1] It has published a newspaper, as well as books and conference proceedings.
The Uruguay women's national football team represents Uruguay in international women's football. The women's football section of the Uruguayan Football Association started in 1996 and the first official competition of the national team took place in the 1998 South American Championship. The best performance to date in the South American ...
This is a list of women writers who were born in Uruguay or whose writings are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Her interest in women's history includes the history of feminism, women in Argentina, women in Chile, and women in Uruguay, developed in her monograph Women, Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, 1890–1940 (Nebraska Press, 1995). A review of this work by Virginia Leonard notes "Asunción Lavrin is ... a pioneer in Latin ...