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Abstract / Summary

As part of the United Nations Decade on Women, the Angolan government prepared a report on the political, economic, and social condition of Angolan women. Citing the difficulties arising out of a civil war and indeed of the colonial period in general, the government explains its commitment to the improvement of women’s condition. An important step in this process was the creation of the Organization of Angolan Women in 1983. Subsections discuss important and progressive changes to legislation (including labor, family, and electoral law), women’s access to vocational training and equal employment, women’s access to education and healthcare, and to women’s interests in national media outlets. The report ends by arguing that national liberation from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975 has also translated into women’s liberation.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Publisher

Angola

Collection

Women and Social Movements, International

Corporate Author

Angola

Content Type

Government/institutional document

Duration

0 sec

Format

Text

Page Count

33

Publication Year

1985

Publisher

Angola

Place Published / Released

Luanda, Luanda Province

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Politics, Women and Social Reform, Transnational Women’s Movement, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Social Reform and Political Activism, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, International Peace, Equal Rights for Women

Topic

Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, International Peace, Equal Rights for Women

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional