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62:(Women's Club), a women's reading circle founded by upper-class women. Both promoted women's suffrage, and when the Women's Club asked the Conservative Party to support women's suffrage, they were threatened by the church with excommunication. After this, the two women's organizations merged to found the National Council of Women in 1919. 83:
It promoted a moderate and gradual progression toward equality. In accordance with this, they supported that the suffrage be introduced gradually, with municipal suffrage introduced before full national suffrage.
80:) in the Civil Code that restricted the powers of custody of the father in favor of the mother. It enabled women to testify before the law and authorized married women to manage the fruits of their labor. 69:(Women's Civic Party) was founded the same year, but it was to be the dominant women's organization in Chile. It was also the first organized women's suffrage organization in Chile. 76:, in which women were under the guardianship of their husbands. In 1925, it helped achieve the adoption of a legal decree known as the Maza Law (named after 17: 157: 98: 93: 147: 152: 167: 46:
The National Council of Women was created by the merge of two women's organizations founded in 1915. The Women's Reading Circle or
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It also worked for a change of the civil code to improve women's rights, particularly to abolish the
77: 8: 55: 38:, founded in 1919. It was one of the first women's organizations in Chile. 141: 51: 35: 129:
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National Council of Women of Chile
Chile
Santiago
Amanda Labarca
Senator José Maza
Comité Nacional pro Derechos de la Mujer
Federación Chilena de Instituciones Femeninas





Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Categories
Organizations established in 1919
Women's rights organizations
Women's organisations based in Chile
1919 establishments in Chile
Feminist organisations in Chile
Women's suffrage in Chile

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