Domitila barrios de chungara


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Domitila barrios de chungara

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    • Domitila Chúngara

    Domitila Barrios de Chungara (7 May [2] – 13 March ) was a Bolivian labor leader and feminist.[3] In she participated in the International Women's YearTribune put on by the United Nations in Mexico.[4][5] She died in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 13 March of lung cancer.[6]

    Housewives' Committee

    In , seventy women organized the Housewives' Committee in the tinmineSiglo XX.[7] They were the wives of miners who had demanded higher wages and been subsequently imprisoned in La Paz, about miles from Siglo XX.

    One by one, these women went to La Paz to find their husbands, and, one by one, they returned demoralized. They decided go together to La Paz, and though they were confronted by the barzolas of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, their husbands' demands were met after the women staged a ten-day hunger strike.

    It was then that they created the Housewives' Committee. It was organized like a union an