After decades of struggle for the right to vote, Filipino women finally secured suffrage in 1937. By now, you must have read Encarnacion Alzona's "Shall the Filipino Women Vote?" which was originally published in 1919. Here is the work of another Filipino suffragist, Trinidad Fernandez Legarda, who wrote this piece, "Philippine Women and the Vote" published it in Philippine Magazine in 1931. The question regarding this would be: 1. Are women represented well in our histories? How are they portrayed, and who is mainly responsible for the framing that they receive in our narratives?

After decades of struggle for the right to vote, Filipino women finally secured suffrage in 1937. By now, you must have read Encarnacion Alzona's "Shall the Filipino Women Vote?" which was originally published in 1919. Here is the work of another Filipino suffragist, Trinidad Fernandez Legarda, who wrote this piece, "Philippine Women and the Vote" published it in Philippine Magazine in 1931. The question regarding this would be: 1. Are women represented well in our histories? How are they portrayed, and who is mainly responsible for the framing that they receive in our narratives?