Women in Portugal

Women in Portugal
Two women from Portugal in traditional garb, 2010
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)8 (2010)
Women in parliament28.7% (2013)
Women over 25 with secondary education47.7% (2012)
Women in labour force66.6% (employment rate OECD definition, 2020)[1]
Gender Inequality Index[2]
Value0.067 (2021)
Rank15th out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index[3]
Value0.766 (2022)
Rank29th out of 146

Women in Portugal received full legal equality with Portuguese men as mandated by Portugal's constitution of 1976, which in turn resulted from the Revolution of 1974. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in Portugal in 1931 under Salazar's Estado Novo, but not on equal terms with men. The right for women to vote was later broadened twice under the Estado Novo. The first time was in 1946 and the second time in 1968 under Marcelo Caetano, law 2137 proclaimed the equality of men and women for electoral purposes. By the early part of the 1990s, many women of Portugal became professionals, including being medical doctors and lawyers, a leap from many being merely office employees and factory workers.[4]

  1. ^ OECD. "LFS by sex and age - indicators". stats.oecd.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Portugal-Women (data as of 1993)". Mongabay.com. Retrieved 3 November 2013.

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