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The low number of women entering the labor force causes Chile to rank low amongst upper-middle class countries regarding women in the work force despite higher educational training. [23] In Chile, poorer women make up a smaller share of the workforce. [23] A 2004 study showed that 81.4 percent of women worked in the service sector. [30]
Feminism in Chile has its own liberation language and activist strategies for rights that is shaped by the political, economic, and social system of Chile. Beginning in the 19th century, Chilean women have been organizing with aspirations of asserting their political rights. [ 1 ]
Women's suffrage in Chile was introduced on the communal level in 1935, and on national level on 8 January 1949. [1] It was the product of a long period of activism, tracing back to 1877, when women were allowed to attend university, a reform which stimulated the formation of a women's movement.
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The Unión Femenina de Chile was founded by Graciela Lacoste Navarro in 1928. It had been suggested in 1927, when women had celebrated the 1877 reform that allowed women to study at the university. The organization campaigned for women's rights and emancipation, women's social, financial and educational rights, as well as for women's suffrage.
The National Women's Service (Spanish: Servicio Nacional de la Mujer; SERNAM) is a public service in Chile, a functionally decentralized organization, with its own funding, which is part of the cabinet-level Ministry of Planning and Cooperation under the President of Chile, created January 3, 1991 by the Law N° 19,023, with the goal of promoting the equality of men and women.
The first human rights organization operating in Chile was the Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile formed by an interreligious group in 1973 in response to the torture, killings, and other violations of human rights following the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
Women's rights in Chile (5 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Women in Chile" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.