Women have been serving in the military since the inception of organized warfare, in both combat and non-combat roles. Their inclusion in combat missions has increased in recent decades, often serving as pilots, mechanics, and infantry officers.
Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo is a Brazilian actress, TV host and model.
France Winddance Twine is a Black and Native American sociologist, ethnographer, visual artist, and documentary filmmaker. Twine has conducted field research in Brazil, the UK, and the United States on race, racism, and anti-racism. She has published 11 books and more than 100 articles, review essays, and books on these topics.
Paulo Pereira de Almeida, Ph.D. (ISCTE) is a Portuguese academic. He is a professor at ISCTE in the areas of Organization and Management of Business, Labor and Internationalization Business.
ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is a Portuguese public tertiary education institution. It is located in the city centre of Lisbon, in Cidade Universitária, adjoining the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) and Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) of the University of Lisbon. ISCTE was founded in 1972, starting with three degrees and 296 studentes. Formerly called Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, its full name was dropped in 2009 when it became a university institute of foundational nature.
Women in Portugal received full legal equality with Portuguese men as mandated by Portugal's constitution of 1976, which in turn resulted from the Revolution of 1974. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in Portugal in 1931 under Salazar's Estado Novo, but not on equal terms with men. The right for women to vote was later broadened twice under the Estado Novo. The first time was in 1946 and the second time in 1968 under Marcelo Caetano, law 2137 proclaimed the equality of men and women for electoral purposes. By the early part of the 1990s, many women of Portugal became professionals, including being medical doctors and lawyers, a leap from many being merely office employees and factory workers.
Pedro Filipe Tinoco Monteiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Erovnuli Liga club Torpedo Kutaisi.
Carlos dos Santos Rodrigues, known as Carlos Ponck or simply Ponck, is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Primeira Liga club Moreirense.
Luís Carlos Rocha Rodrigues, known as Rocha, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for C.D. Santa Clara as a central defender.
The Ministry of National Defence and Homeland Veterans is an executive agency of the Government of Angola that controls the Angolan Armed Forces. It is based at Rua 17 de Setembro in Luanda.
Mariana Guimarães Vieira da Silva is a Portuguese sociologist and politician who currently serves as Minister of the Presidency in António Costa's XXIII Constitutional Government, effectively in second in the government.
Vitória Pais Freire de Andrade was an active Portuguese feminist who played an important role in the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas in the 1920s. She is also known for her campaigning against bullfighting in Portugal.
The Organization of Mozambican Women is the women's section of FRELIMO. Founded in 1973, during the Mozambican War of Independence, in recognition of women's growing roles in the conflict against Portuguese colonialism, the OMM was created as a non-military structure to promote women's education, emancipation and mobilization. Following independence in 1975, the OMM focussed on issues related to women's education, ethnic division, divorce, family planning, adultery and promiscuity, prostitution, and alcoholism. In 1990, the OMM voted to separate from FRELIMO, although shortly thereafter, the organization re-affiliated.
Helena Neves was an active Portuguese communist and feminist and an opponent of the Estado Novo regime in Portugal, being imprisoned on three occasions. She became a successful journalist and was a deputy in the Portuguese parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in 2001–02. She was also a professor on gender and the women's movement at the Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon.
Isabel Gago was only the second woman to study engineering in Portugal and the first woman to teach chemical engineering.
Sandra Cunha was a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic as a member of the Bloco de Esquerda. She resigned in April 2021. Before joining parliament, Cunha was a part-time assistant professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. As a lesbian, Cunha was among the winners of Portugal's Arco-íris (Rainbow) award in 2018 in the category "Coming Out".
Cristóvão Artur Chume is a Mozambican military general who has been the Minister of National Defense since his appointment in November 2021. He had previously served as the Commander of the Army Branch of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces from March to November 2021.
Rosane Maria Marchetti, best known as Rosane Marchetti, is a Brazilian journalist, TV host and businesswoman.
The Diploma Bertha Lutz, also known as the Prêmio Bertha Lutz, was established by the Federal Senate of Brazil to recognize women who have made contributions to the defense of women's rights and gender issues in Brazil. It is named in honor of the Brazilian biologist and feminist leader Bertha Lutz.
Maria Aparecida Gonçalves is a Brazilian advertiser person, feminist activist, consultant in public politics of gender and violence against women and current Minister of Women.
