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Leonora Pujadas-McShine (1910 – 2 April 1995) was a Trinidadian women's rights activist and community worker. When Trinidad and Tobago granted universal suffrage, she established the first League of Women Voters in the country to educate women on their civic roles. She also was an advocate of equal pay and labour practices.
The Trinidad and Tobago Succession Act was passed by Parliament in 1981 and Legislation on Property Rights was also passed, revising provisions on real property and women's property rights. As such, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago affirms women's rights to property ownership.
The Coterie would be the leading women's rights organization for middle-class women in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1920s to the 1940s. [ 9 ] In 1936, the Coterie hosted a conference in Port of Spain and invited social workers from throughout the British West Indies and British Guiana .
She worked organising women for political office with EMILY's List. [9] Brown led the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women's 'Put a Woman' project during the 2000 and 2001 elections, which encouraged people to vote for women candidates. [1] In 2006, she became coordinator for the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women. [1]
Gema Wellesley Julumsingh, a Dougla, was born in 1910 [1] in Curepe, when Trinidad was part of the British West Indies to Florence (née Arindell) and Julumsingh, an educated man of Indian heritage. Her mother, of White Scottish and Afro-Caribbean heritage died when she was around two years old and her father sent Gema and her younger sister to ...
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Consisting of main islands Trinidad and Tobago and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated 12 kilometres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 129 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
Lisa Allen Agostini at TEDxYouth@QueensParkSavannah", 22 November 2013 (YouTube video). BC Pires, "The novel Miss Allen knead" (interview), Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 24 May 2021. Janine Mendes-Franco, "Lisa Allen-Agostini, shortlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction, was born to be a 'Trinidad writer ' ", Global Voices, 15 May 2022.
Nixon works, writers and makes art about intersectional feminism, Black liberation and decolonization. [1]Nixon is a tenured lecturer at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine's Institute for Gender and Development Studies where, from 2017 to 2021, she led the Sexual Culture of Justice program that produced local and regional analysis on how to approach sexual and gender-based ...