Tuesday, October 28, 2008
PICTURE OF A FILIPINA AS A FEMINIST
This photo was taken during last year's election at Mabini Elementary School in Quiapo. It shows an elderly woman about to cast her vote.
Such right by the Filipino women was won on September 15, 1937, when President Manuel L. Quezon signed the law which extends the right to vote to Filipino women. This historic moment was largely attributed to the intense national campaign launched by the members of the Filipino feminist movement who used every possible means to draw women to register and vote for their own right to vote.
In the end, their tireless efforts paid off when they met the quota of 300,000 affirmative votes required by the suffrage law of the 1934 Constitutional Convention. The pillars of this feminist movement were invited to Malacañang Palace to witness the signing of the law that gives the Filipino women the right to vote and the privilege of being elected into public office.
This historical marker is placed in front of a building on
Avenida Rizal near corner C.M. Recto Avenue in Santa Cruz, Manila.
Avenida Rizal near corner C.M. Recto Avenue in Santa Cruz, Manila.
The role of women in the arena of politics and legislation was first heightened by the Suffragist Movement (1898-1937) which gained for the Filipino women the right to vote and be voted upon.
The suffragist movement brought to the fore the activism of such women as Concepcion Felix de Calderon (founder of the Asociacion Feminista Filipina), Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, Trinidad Almeda, Miss Constancia Poblete (founder of Liga Femenina de la Paz), Pura Villanueva Kalaw, Paz Mendoza Guazon, Pilar Hidalgo Lim (president of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs) and Josefa Llanes Escoda (president of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines).
Read more here.
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Additional recommended reads:
Women's rights in the Philippines today - Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project
Empowering the Filipino Woman - The Manila Times
Philippine Suffragette - Women in World History
Women's rights in the Philippines today - Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project
Empowering the Filipino Woman - The Manila Times
Philippine Suffragette - Women in World History
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