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Olivia Atavia "Babsy" Grange [1] OJ, CD, DSE [2] (born 27 April 1946) is a Jamaican politician. She has served as Member of Parliament for Saint Catherine Central since 1997 and as Jamaica's Minister of Sports, Youth and Culture for the duration of the Jamaica Labour Party government from 2007 to 2011 and Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport since 2016.
Portia Simpson-Miller is Jamaica's first woman prime minister (2006-2007) and (2011-2016). Women in Jamaica gained the right to vote in 1919, but that right was subject to property and income requirements. [3] By 1917 there was a branch of the Women's Citizens League was established. [4] The country was granted full adult suffrage on November ...
Verene Albertha Shepherd (née Lazarus; born 1960) is a Jamaican academic who is a professor of social history at the University of the West Indies in Mona.She is the director of the university's Institute for Gender and Development Studies, and specialises in Jamaican social history and diaspora studies.
Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna (born 20 August 1975) [1] is a Jamaican politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1993, [2] becoming the third Jamaican to win the title. A member of the opposition People's National Party, Hanna currently serves as Member of Parliament for Saint Ann South East, and was Jamaica's Minister of Youth and Culture from 2012–2016.
Lucille Mathurin Mair, (née Walrond; 1924 – 28 January 2009), was a Jamaican ambassador, author, diplomat and gender specialist. In March 1982, she became the first female Under Secretary General of the United Nations. She died aged 85 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Leo-Rhynie was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica.She grew up in Saint Andrew, and attended the St Andrew High School for Girls. [1] Leo-Rhynie completed her undergraduate education at the University of the West Indies (UWI), graduating with a B.Sc. in botany and zoology.
Category: Gender in Jamaica. ... Women in Jamaica (9 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 22:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Tracy Robinson grew up in Jamaica, attending Immaculate Conception High School. [1] She continued her education at the University of the West Indies, earning a law degree with honours in 1991. In 1992, she attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar [2] earning a bachelor's degree in Civil Law. She then earned a master's in Law from Yale ...