POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Michelle Bachelet, System On A Chip, Family Values
28 May 2016
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Gender and citizenship in latin america demanding rights from the state and civil society. Women" suffrage: ecuador the first latin american country to enfranchise women in 1929, paraguay was the last, in 1961, reformist or revolutionary governments often implemented this change. Women"s rights have been bound up in the broader issue of human rights since under dictatorship not only but everyone was denied the right to vote. Understanding women"s progress in politics is bound up in grassroots efforts for social and political change. Revolutionary and reformist government have incorporated women rights into their platform. Women"s rights followed a timeline of upheaval and political change. The phenomenon of women as heads of state is fairly recent. Eva peron was very famous in argentina but did not serve as a head of state. Some women in leadership became renown through their connections to other man such as husbands, fathers, families.
