Honduras National Women's Day

Honduran Women's Day is celebrated every January 25, and it is not a date chosen by chance or without a purpose, but quite the opposite, on a day like today in 1955, Honduran women staged a historic political conquest: the right to vote. At that time, then President Julio Lozano Díaz issued a ministerial decree that allowed, albeit with some restrictions, the women of the country to go to the polls, a historic fact achieved by brave women such as Visitación Padilla, Lucila Gamero, Alba Alonso de Quesada, Joselina Coello, Graciela Bográn, among others.

Despite the progress that society has made in terms of gender equity, there is still a burden in its social integration that is everyone's responsibility to achieve. According to the National Institute of Statistics, women represent 52% of the population and are a third of the country's economic force, women also fulfill the socially established roles known as invisible work: housewives and caregivers.

Honduran Women's Day not only serves to celebrate victories, but also to vindicate all that remains to be done by one of the social sectors that is a fundamental pillar of Honduran society, challenges in terms of security, health, labor, civil and political rights.