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Women are a slight minority in Peru; in 2010 they represented 49.9 percent of the population. Women have a life expectancy of 74 years at birth, five years more than men. [32] Latest estimates suggest that the population of Peru is Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%. [33]
In the early 20th-century, the issue was beginning to be lifted in public debate by pioneering women's activists such as Maria Jesus Alvarado, Zoila Aurora Cáceres, Adela Montesinos, Elvira Garcia y Garcia and Magda Portal, and Maria Jesus Alvarado was the first Peruvian woman to support women's suffrage in public in 1911. The Parliament first ...
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María Jesús Alvarado Rivera (27 May 1878 – 6 May 1971) was a Peruvian rebel feminist, educator, journalist, writer and social activist. She was noted by the National Council of Women of Peru in 1969 as the "first modern champion of women's rights in Peru".
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Rosa Palomino Chahuareses (11 March 1951 – 26 March 2022) [1] was an Aymara Indigenous leader, journalist, human rights activist, and social leader in Peru. [2] In 2014, the Ministry of Culture presented her with an award for her work in developing community radio for women.
Lourdes Huanca Atencio was born in Tacna, a city in the South of Peru, in 1968. [1] She is a member of Peru's Aimara tribe, and her family is from Puno, Peru. [5] She lived with her father until she was eight years old at which point she was sent to live with her mother and step-father. [2]