📢📢 March is the month of the women! Therefore, the @WorkersEESC continues with the weekly tribute to important women who contributed to the Workers' Rights and Feminist movement.

#InternationalWomenDay2023 #MarchofWomen

Today, Clara Campoamor 🇪🇸💜👇🏾👇🏽👇🏼

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1/10 Born in 1888 in Madrid, Clara Campoamor was one of the most important figures in the Spanish feminist movement of the early 20th century. Her political activism was especially relevant during the Spanish II Republic (1931-1939)

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2/10 Despite growing up in a working-class family and facing numerous obstacles, Campoamor excelled academically and became a lawyer, later using her skills to fight for women's rights.

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3/10 In the early 1930s, Campoamor played a key role in the passage of a law granting Spanish women the right to vote, which had been fiercely opposed by traditionalists and the Catholic Church, among others.

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4/10 In her famous speech to the Spanish Parliament in 1931, Campoamor argued passionately for women's right to vote, declaring that "we are not asking for favors, but for justice."

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