Cadaval is a municipality in the Oeste intermunicipal community and Lisbon District of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 14,228, in an area of 174.89 km2.
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo was a Portuguese physician and the first woman to vote in Portugal.
Adelaide Cabete, was one of the main Portuguese feminists of the 20th century. A staunch Republican, she was an obstetrician, gynecologist, teacher, Freemason, author, philanthropist, pacifist, abolitionist, animal rights defender and humanist.
Ana de Castro Osório was a Portuguese feminist, active in the field of children's literature and political Republicanism.
Virgínia Sofia Guerra Quaresma was the first woman to take up professional journalism in Portugal and was one of the first women graduates from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. She was openly lesbian, in a time when society dictated that sexual orientation be hidden, and a feminist, who advocated for full equality between men and women. In her coverage of a sensational murder case in Brazil, she brought the issue of violence against women to the forefront. In the 1930s, she relocated permanently to Brazil, but traveled internationally with her work. A street was renamed in her honor in the Belém neighborhood of Lisbon, and in 2010, she was honored with a stamp bearing her likeness, along with other women.
The Portuguese Women's Crusade was a Portuguese feminist beneficence movement, founded in 1916 by a group of women led by First Lady Elzira Dantas Machado, aiming to provide moral and material assistance to those in need in the context of the First World War and the enforcement of conscription. It disbanded in 1938. A staple of the so-called first-wave feminism in Portugal, it has been studied as a key feature of the history of feminism in the context of the Portuguese First Republic.
The Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas was a feminist organization founded in 1914.
Beatriz Pinheiro or Beatriz Paes Pinheiro de Lemos was a Portuguese writer concerned with improving the rights of women. She was a pacifist who became convinced that Portugal should fight in the First World War.
Alice Pestana or Maria Evelina Pestana Coelho was a prolific Portuguese writer. She was the first president of the pacifist organisation Portuguese League for Peace that was founded in 1899.
Sara Beirão was a Portuguese writer, journalist, women's rights activist and philanthropist. As an author, she is particularly known for fiction aimed at children and youth and for her work as publisher and editor of the Alma feminina feminist magazine.
Ana Vicente was an Anglo-Portuguese writer with a strong Catholic faith, known for her support for feminist causes.
Deolinda Lopes Vieira was a primary school teacher as well as an anarcho-syndicalist activist and a feminist, who played an important role in Portugal's Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas.
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.
Maria Clara Correia Alves was a Portuguese feminist. She was one of the founders of the National Council of Portuguese Women in 1914 and both the Secretary-General of the Council and the editor of its newsletter from 1914 to 1920.
Maria Alzira Lemos, also known as Maria Alzira Costa de Castro Cardoso Lemos (1919–2005), was a Portuguese parliamentary deputy, socialist, feminist and women's rights activist, who assisted with the creation of the Portuguese Platform for the Rights of Women.
Ana Augusta de Castilho was a Portuguese feminist, teacher, propagandist, freemason, and republican activist opposed to the Portuguese monarchy.
Maria Benedita Mouzinho de Albuquerque de Faria Pinho, was a Portuguese writer, translator, teacher, propagandist, republican activist and feminist activist. She was a pioneer in the campaign to get women the right to vote and for the legalisation of divorce.
Alice Lawrence Oram was a British journalist and translator living in Portugal. As a journalist, she broke the news overseas of the 5 October 1910 revolution that overthrew the Portuguese monarchy.
Angélica Viana Porto was a Portuguese feminist, republican, pacifist and anti-dictatorship activist, recognized for her role during the first wave of the feminist movement in Portugal. She was active initially in the Liga das Mulheres Republicanas and then in the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas, where she served as vice-president and honorary president.
Maria Palmira Tito de Morais was a Portuguese nursing professor, World Health Organization employee, feminist, pacifist activist, and opponent of the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal.
