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Women, the Vote, and the Party in the Politics of the Colombian National Front

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shirley Harkess  and
Patricia Pinzon de Lewin
Shirley Harkess
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66044
Patricia Pinzon de Lewin
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Colombian women have only recently entered the political arena on a formal basis—they first exercised the right to vote in 1957. Their activity as voters, party workers, and public officials is a by-product of the National Front governing agreement to alternate Conservative and Liberal presidents and to maintain party parity in public office. Since the April 1974 election initiated the official demise of the National Front, we propose to examine the role of women in the political life of this period.

Colombia is well suited for such a study. Appealing to women to exercise their voting rights, the principal political parties established internal organizations to mobilize their electoral support. Public discussion of the inferior status of women in Colombian society encouraged two of the three presidential candidates to orient themselves to women voters in the 1974 campaign. One candidate was a woman, while another promised reform of divorce and discriminatory laws.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 17 , Issue 4: Special Issue: The Changing Role of Women in Latin America , November 1975 , pp. 439 - 464
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Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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