Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD), was a women's organization in Dominican Republic, founded in 1931. The women's movement in the Dominican Republic organized in 1931 with the establishment of the Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD) under

Abigail Mejia Ana Emilia Abigaíl Mejia Soliere (April 15, 1895 – March 15, 1941) was a feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator from the Dominican Republic. She completed her primary education at the Salome Ureña de Henríquez School fo ...

. The purpose of the AFD was to work for the legal equality between men and women, among them women's suffrage. In order to reach their goal the AFD allied with dictator

Rafael Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( ; ; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (; "the boss"), was a Dominican military officer and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until Rafael Trujillo#Assassination, ...

, who used AFD in his propaganda to secure support for his regime among women, as well as to present a modern image of his regime, and "feminist" therefore came to be synonymous with "Trujillista" (female Trujillo-supporter) on the Dominican Republic.Fernandez-Asenjo, Maria-Mercedes (2015). De maestras normalistas a 'damas trujillistas': El feminismo Dominicano, 1915-1946 (Thesis) . Trujillo finally fulfilled his promise to the AFD for its support after eleven years, when he introduced women's suffrage on the Dominican Republic in 1942, and the first women -

Milady Félix de L'Official Milady (from ''my lady'') is a French manner of address to a noble woman, the feminine form of milord. Milady, M'Lady, or similar, may also refer to: Fictional characters *Milady de Winter, fictional character in Alexandre Dumas, père's d'Artagn ...

Isabel Mayer Isabel Mayer (1885-1961) was a Dominican feminist, politician and socialite from the province of Monte Cristi in the Northwest of the Dominican Republic. She was a member of the feminist group Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD) that helped secure ...

and

Josefa Sánchez de González Josefa Sánchez de González was a Dominican Republic teacher and politician. In 1942 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming one of the first group of Dominican Congresswomen. Biography A teacher by profession, Sánchez de Gonzále ...

- was elected to Parliament.

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1930s establishments in the Dominican Republic Organizations established in 1931 Social history of the Dominican Republic Women's rights in the Dominican Republic Women's organizations based in the Dominican Republic History of women in the Dominican Republic Women's suffrage in the Dominican Republic {{feminism-stub