María Caro Más

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María Caro Más
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1936–1940
ConstituencyOriente Province

María Caro Más de Chácon was a Cuban politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.

Biography[]

In 1918 she became editor of Oriente, a weekly magazine.[1] She later became a professor of public instruction,[2] and served as president of the National Council of the Defence of the Child and head of the National Office of Labor for Women and Minors.[3]

She was a candidate for the House of Representatives in Oriente Province in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote, and was one of seven women elected.[4] She became the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives on an occasion when both the president and vice president were absent; as she was the oldest member in attendance, she oversaw the session.[5] She served in the House until 1940.[6][7]

She later became chair of the women's division of the National Progressive Coalition, which supported Fulgencio Batista.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ O Diccionario de la literatura Cubana
  2. ^ Facetas de la vida de Cuba republicana, 1902-1952, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, 1954, p74
  3. ^ Reglamentación del trabajo del niño y del adolescente Eighth Pan American Child Congress
  4. ^ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
  5. ^ Mujeres en el Congreso Juventud Rebelde, 12 April 2015
  6. ^ En Cuba sólo han sido Representates veinte mujeres, desde el 1936 Diario de la Marina, 14 December 1955
  7. ^ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127
  8. ^ "Women back Batista", The Tampa Tribune, 30 June 1957
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