| More on Ecuadorian Women |
| Women take an active role in all agricultural work, especially weeding, sowing, and harvesting. |
| Housework is not looked at as a job or responsibility, but a duty. |
| Peasant women must not only work in the fields, but also do all of the housework. |
| They also participate in the annual and traditional Mingas (where all family and community is called on to work during the harvesting season and continue to work until there is no more harvesting left to do). To the left is a photo of a typical Minga event. |
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| Some Interesting factual History: |
| The Liberal Constitution of 1896 established new criteria for the right to vote. |
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| In 1928, women first were recognized as full citizens of the Republic of Ecuador. |
| One women's movement in November of 1929 paralyzed the entire city of Guayaquil in all economic activity for one week. |
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| Las Damas de SOLCA, at the cancer hospital, SOLCA, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, all volunteers are women,and about 65% of the doctors are also women. |