Domitila barrios de chungara wikipedia

Domitila Barrios de Chungara (7 May 1937^[2] – 13 March 2012) was a Bolivian labor leader and feminist.^[3] In 1975 she participated in the International Women's YearTribune put on by the United Nations in Mexico.^[4][5] She died in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 13 March 2012 of lung cancer.^[6]

Housewives' Committee

In 1961, seventy women organized the Housewives' Committee in the tinmineSiglo XX.^[7] They were the wives of miners who had demanded higher wages and been subsequently imprisoned in La Paz, about 200 miles from Siglo XX.

One by one, these women went to La Paz to find their husbands, and, one by one, they returned demoralized. They decided go together to La Paz, and though they were confronted by the barzolas of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, their husbands' demands were met after the women staged a ten-day hunger strike.

It was then that they created the Housewives' Committee. It was