Essay On Women In Latin America

In both Western Europe and Latin America, women just only had a few rights, but they were allowed to participate in discussion if they chose to. They couldn’t vote or attain any position of important standing. In Western Europe (especially France) women supported charities, worked as teachers, and they were allowed to participate in political discussion in French salons but they didn’t have the right to vote, divorce, or work in politics. French women were allowed to work in small businesses, usually alongside their husband, but this was only happened among lower class women and could never be accepted by the aristocracy. Even after the first French Revolution, which considered to be a fight for total equality, the case still remained. French …show more content…
Brazil was given their independence by Portugal without the need of using any rebellion. Because of that, women in Latin America still had to remain their position they always had at home. While Latin American women did gain a new freedom so they could participate in political discussion just like women in French salons, but they still didn’t have the right to vote. Cultural hindrances also prevented Latin American women from having any positions in politics or business. In Latin America the primary role of women is as wives and mothers. Women in Latin America during this period were content to remain at home, raise families, work hard. They saw their duties as being wife and a mother above all else. The view on their roles in the society was fueled by their heavily Catholic background. Because of the way Catholicism viewed their women, they did little to make any advances toward suffrage or any other rights. While the women’s suffrage movements were taking place in Europe, in Latin America the culture of machismo influenced behavior in females. The Women’s suffrage movement was the right for women to vote and this was a good thing unlike machismo. Machismo is a strong sense of masculine