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A P P E N D I X Chronology of Events Year Political and Economic Context Women’s Organizing Efforts 1900–1920s State liberalization Suffragist movement Economic crisis (1925Ⳮ) Socialist and nationalist First wave of urbanization feminisms High unemployment Pan-American women’s congresses Feminist magazines Female suffrage (1929, literate women) 1930–1940s Velasquista populism Women’s auxiliaries of peasant, Ministry of Social Prevision and indigenous, and labor Labor (1938) movements Women in leftist Labor Code (1938) political parties Glorious May Revolution (1944) United Nations (1945Ⳮ) Banana exportation 1950–1960s Ministry of Labor and Social Women’s auxiliaries of peasant Welfare (1968) and labor organizations Development aid first channeled formed Discovery of oil 1970s Military rule un women’s conference (1975) Oil dollars March of Pots and Pans (1978) Heavy state spending Women’s participation in Growing deficit antimilitary protest coalitions, Voting rights extended to human rights, popular illiterate people (1976) education, and labor First election with mass voting movements participation (1980) 1980s Redemocratization cedaw ratified (1981) Foreign-debt crisis and saps ofnamu (1980) Roldós/Hurtado govt. (1980–84) cepam (1982) Febres-Cordero govt. (1984–88) amm established (1986) Borja government (1988–92) National Conferences of Feminist Theory (1986 and 1987) First Latin American/Caribbean feminist encuentro (1981) 154 appendix Year Political and Economic Context Women’s Organizing Efforts un women’s conferences (1980, 1985) ngoization of women’s movement 1990s Neoliberalism Violence Against Women Law Indigenous protests and strikes (1995) Durán-Ballén govt. (1992–96) Women’s Police Commissaries Bucaram govt. 1996–97 (1995) Mahuad govt. 1997–2000 cpme (1986) New Constitution 1998 conmei (1997) Financial crisis 1999 Feminists for Autonomy (1997) un Beijing conference (1995) Female political quota 20% (1997) conamu, Office of the President (1998) conamu’s Equal Opportunity Plan introduced (1998) Revised civil/penal codes (1998–99) 2000s Noboa govt. 2000–2002 Female political quota increased Dollarization (2001) to 30 percent (2000) Gutiérrez govt. 2002–present ...

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