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Panamanian women tell their struggle to overcome inequality and discrimination in the political and public sphere and for the right to universal suffrage which they obtained in 1946.
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Mireya Moscoso, Balbina Herrera, Silvia Carrera, Petita Ayarza, Dalia Bernal, Teresita de Arias, Nadine González, Kayra Harding, Yesenia Rodríguez, Walkiria Chandeck, Yara Campos
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