Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile. She is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and before becoming eligible for re-election,she was appointed as the first executive director of the newly established United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013,Bachelet was re-elected with over 62% of the vote,surpassing the 54% she received in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be re-elected since 1932.
Carolina Montserrat ToháMorales is a Chilean political scientist,educator,and politician. Since September 6,2022,she has served as the Minister of Interior and Public Security of Chile,under the presidency of Gabriel Boric. Previously,she served as the Minister Secretary General of Government –being the first woman to hold this position –during the first government of President Michelle Bachelet.
Vivianne Amelia Blanlot Soza is a Chilean economist and politician. Her father Jorge Enrique Blanlot was an Army captain,and her grandfather General Enrique Blanlot Reisig. She has a degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and MA in the same discipline applied by the American University in the United States.
Paulina Eliana Veloso Valenzuela is a Chilean lawyer and Socialist Party politician who served as the Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency of Chile from March 11,2006 to March 27,2007.
Ricardo Andrés Lagos Weber,son of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos,is a politician who served as the Ministry General Secretariat of Government of Chile in the administration of former President Michelle Bachelet after having worked for Bachelet's 2005-2006 campaign. He is trained in law and economics,and has served the majority of his government career in economic positions. He was also an organizer and the senior representative for Chile at the Annual Meeting of APEC held in Chile in 2004,in addition to being one of the architects of the free trade agreements that Chile signed with the United States and the European Union as the head of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Trade Policy. He is a member of the Party for Democracy (PPD). Between March 2016 and March 2017 he was President of the Senate of Chile.
Sara María Larraín Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and environmentalist who ran for president in 1999 presidential election. She is of Basque descent.
The lives,roles,and rights of women in Chile have gone through many changes over time. Chilean women's societal roles have historically been impacted by traditional gender roles and a patriarchal culture,but throughout the twentieth century,women increasingly involved themselves in politics and protest,resulting in provisions to the constitution to uphold equality between men and women and prohibit sex discrimination.
Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet is a Chilean politician and the current mayor of Providencia,a prosperous commune of Santiago,serving since 2016. Prior to her current position,she held the role of Deputy in the Chilean Congress from 1990 to 1998,and subsequently served as a Senator from 1998 to 2011. In January 2011,she left her Senate seat to assume the role of Minister of Labor and Social Security under Chilean President Sebastián Piñera until July 2013. In the 2013 Chilean general election,she ran for President with the support of the Independent Democrat Union Party. However,she lost in a runoff to former President Michelle Bachelet.
Liceo Javiera Carrera or Liceo N°1 de Niñas de Santiago is a high school for girls in Santiago,Chile.
Romy María Schmidt Crnosija is a lawyer,academic,researcher and Chilean politician. She was the Minister of National Assets for President Michelle Bachelet from March 11,2006,until January 6,2010.
Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling is a Chilean communist politician and former student leader. A member of the Communist Party of Chile,she has been serving as the Minister General Secretariat of Government since 11 March 2022. Previously,Vallejo worked as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile,representing District 26 of La Florida,Santiago.
María Ignacia Benítez was the Chilean Minister of the Environment,between 2010 and 2014.
Cecilia Pérez Jara is a Chilean politician which has served as minister in the two governments of Sebastián Piñera.
Feminism in Chile has its own liberation language and activist strategies for rights that is shaped by the political,economic,and social system of Chile. Beginning in the 19th century,Chilean women have been organizing with aspirations of asserting their political rights. These aspirations have had to work against the reality that Chile is one of the most socially conservative countries in Latin America. The Círculo de Estudios de la Mujer is one example of a pioneering women's organization during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1989) which redefined women's responsibilities and rights,linking “mothers’rights”to women's rights and women's civil liberties. The founding members of the Círculo de Estudios de La Mujer consisted of a small group of Santiago feminists who were from the Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. These women gathered "to discuss the situation of women in Chile," their first meeting drew a crowd of over 300 participants and from there challenged the authoritarian life in Santiago. These women helped shape the rights for women in Chile.
Ángela Margarita Jeria Gómez was a Chilean archaeologist. Mother of the President of Chile Michelle Bachelet,she was the wife of the Chilean Air Force Brigadier General Alberto Bachelet,who died after being tortured during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Jeria served informally in the role of first lady during the first Bachelet government,accompanying her daughter to several official functions. Her official protocolary role was "Director of the Sociocultural Area of the Presidency".
María Adela Maluenda Campos was a Chilean actress and politician. She was a militant of the Communist Party and the Party for Democracy,and a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1965 to 1969 and 1990 to 1994.
Fabiola Alicia Letelier del Solar was a Chilean lawyer,noted for her activism and defense of human rights in Chile and Latin America. She was the founder and president of CODEPU (1980–1998),and a plaintiff lawyer in the case surrounding her brother Orlando Letelier's assassination in 1976. On 23 July 2018,she was awarded the National Human Rights Prize,awarded by the National Institute of Human Rights.
Paula Narváez Ojeda is a Chilean politician and psychologist who is the Chile ambassador to the United Nations under President Gabriel Boric. She was elected as the seventy-ninth President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2023.
The Ministry for the Environment is a ministry of the State of Chile that is in charge of collaborating with the President of the Republic in the design and application of policies,plans and programs in environmental matters,as well as in the protection and conservation of biological diversity and of renewable and hydric natural resources,promoting sustainable development,the integrity of the environmental policy and its normative regulation.
María Paulina Saball Astaburuaga is a Chilean politician and social worker. She was a minister during the second government of Michelle Bachelet.
