the rise of afro-latin women in the americas
...en physically and verbally from the abuse of their husbands who could not provide for their families economically. The subservience of women behavior acted with greater liberty. Women also became more active politically and emerged in greater lights of leadership roles in their communities. In addition, the organization justified the confidence of women and the reality of women power to not allow men to push them around. "Women For Life" is an organization founded by women activist to fight against unemployment, hunger, drugs, exile, torture, and repression. The organization became aware of the countries potential and realized that it was possible to advocate together a democracy. As a result, this organization changed logos and the language of a political system. In Latin America, women first won recognition as citizens in Ecuador in 1929. Only thirty years later, the task of giving women the right to vote in region be concluded, when Paraguay and El Salvador incorporated women’s suffrage into their constitutions in 1961. The long path taken by Latin America countries for women to win the votes stands in contrast in adopting legal provisions to promote women’s access to political positions. In addition, one provision has been the quota system. Quotas Laws implementing quotas have made extraordinary breakthrough for Latin American women in politics and changed the terms of the debate about women in power. Quota is the number or amount constituting a proportional share. As a result, quotas have forced Latin American’s to adopted laws that reserve a fixed percentage of legislative seats for women. The country of Argentina is an example of change due to quota laws. The women of Argentina held only six percent of the seats in the lower house of Congress in 1991. By 2002, women representative 30.7% of women in the Chamber of Deputies, and 35.2 in the Senate and hold 27% of seats in the lower house. Also in Equador, the percentage of women in Congress increased from four to seven-teen percent in a single election, while in Costa Rica women representation increased form 14 to 19% in 1991. By 2002, Costa Rica had attained 35% of women legislators. In subsequent years, ten more countries have enacted laws aimed at including a minimum of women on the political parties list of candidates. The laws established a minimum of 20 to 40% of women candidates on the party list. In this respest, the advent of quota laws gave Latin American women a powerful new means of exerting pressure for change and...