Liga Femenina Salvadoreña

Liga Femenina Salvadoreña (Salvadoran Women's League), was a women's organization in El Salvador, founded in 1947.

It is known for the role it played in the campaign for women's suffrage.

The women's movement organized late in El Salvador. The dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez introduced a limited form of conditional women's suffrage in hope of securing more voters in 1939, but the conditions were so high that 80% of women were still not eligible to vote.{{cite book, access-date=2023-05-03, date=2008, first=Bonnie G., isbn=978-0-19-514890-9, language=en, last=Smith, publisher=Oxford University Press, title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&dq=women%27s+suffrage+costa+rica&pg=PA315

Salvadoran women participated in the struggle for democracy against Hernandez Martinez and the democratization process that followed his fall, and the first three women's organizations were founded in the 1940s: the Asociación de Mujeres Democráticas de El Salvador (AMD) (Association of Democratic Women of El Salvador) with their paper ''Feminist Tribute'' under Rosa Amelia Guzman (1944), the Frente Democrático Femenino (FDF) with its paper ''Democratic Woman'' under Matilde Elena Lopez (1945), and the Liga Femenina Salvadoreña (1947) under Ana Rosa Ochoa with its paper ''Heraldo Femenino''.Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right. (2010). (n.p.): Pennsylvania State University Press

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The Liga Femenina Salvadoreña, while being the last of the three, were known to be the most feiminst one; while the other two were more focused on the democratization as such, the Liga Femenina Salvadoreña focused primarily on women's issues and equality. Full women's suffrage was finally introduced in 1950.

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1940s establishments in El Salvador
Organizations established in 1947
History of El Salvador
Women's rights in El Salvador
Organizations based in El Salvador
History of women in El Salvador
Women's suffrage