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On September 17, 1937, women's suffrage was legalized in the Philippines, after the required threshold for the plebiscite of 300,000 was surpassed. 447,725 women affirmed their aspiration to vote, against 33,307 no votes. [13] The Philippines was one of the first Asian countries to allow this right for women. [14]
During the last part of the colonization of the Philippines, Isabella II of Spain, introduced the Education Decree of 1863 (10 years before Japan had a compulsory free modern public education and 40 years before the United States government started a free modern public school system in the Philippines) that provided for the establishment and ...
The Asociación Feminista Filipina (Philippine Feminist Association) or AFF was a Filipino women's organization, founded in 1905. [1] [2] It was the first women's organization in the Philippines. [1] [3] The objective of the organization was the betterment of women's well-being regardless of class. [4]
Women and government in the Philippines describes the trend on how women in the Philippines participate in the politics and governance of the Republic of the Philippines throughout its history. There had been a gradual increase in the number of Filipino women participating in Philippine politics, both at the local and national level. [ 1 ]
GABRIELA, the alliance, was founded in April 1984 after 10,000 women marched in Manila, defying a Marcos decree against demonstrations. [5] GABRIELA was named in honor of Gabriela Silang, [6] a Filipina revolutionary, who led a revolt against Spain in 1763 following her husband's assassination. [7]
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 ] Counterarguments against women gaining the right to vote in the Philippines were stated due to the fact that it would ruin family unity, giving less power to the ...
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.
Concepción Felix Roque (9 February 1884 – 26 January 1967) was a Filipina feminist and human rights activist.She established one of the first women's organizations in the Philippines, Asociación Feminista Filipina, as well as one of the first humanitarian NGOs, La Gota de Leche, aimed specifically at the well-being of mothers and their children.