Comité Nacional Pro Derechos De La Mujer
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Comité Nacional pro Derechos de la Mujer ( Spanish: National Pro-Women’s Rights Committee) was a women's organization based in Chile founded in 1922. Furci, Carmelo (October 1982). "The Chilean Communist Party (PCCh) and Its Third Underground Period, 1973-1980". Bulletin of Latin American Research. Hoboken, New Jersey: Society for Latin American Studies, Wiley. 2 (1): 81–95. doi:10.2307/3338391. ISSN 0261-3050. JSTOR 3338391. The committee was formed by Felisa Vergara,
Amanda Labarca Amanda Labarca Hubertson (; 1886–1975), was a Chilean diplomat, educator, writer and feminist. Her work was directed mainly at improving the situation of Latin American women and women's suffrage in Chile. She was born Pinto Sepúlveda in Santi ...
and Elena Doll with the purpose of working for the introduction of female suffrage in Chile. The committee was instrumental in achieving female suffrage at the municipal level in 1934, while suffrage on a national level was enacted in 1949 following the efforts of the
Federación Chilena de Instituciones Femeninas Women's suffrage in Chile was introduced on the communal level in 1935, and on national level on 8 January 1949. It was the product of a long period of activism, tracing back to 1877, when women were allowed to attend university, a reform which s ...
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