Geronima Pecson

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Geronima Tomelden Pecson (born December 19, 1896 in Barrio Libsong, Lingayen , Pangasinan ; † July 31, 1989 ) was a Filipino politician of the Liberal Party (LP), which was a member of the Senate between 1947 and 1953 . She was the first female member of the Senate and a campaigner for women's rights in the Philippines.

Life

Social worker, suffragette and private secretary to President Laurel

Geronima Tomelden, the second child of Victor Tomelden and Pacita Palisoc, completed her education at public schools in Lingayen. She completed an undergraduate degree at the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Science (BS). She completed a subsequent postgraduate course with a Master of Arts (MA). She then worked as a social worker and campaigned for women's rights in the Philippines. In 1935, together with Natividad Almeda Lopez , Josefa Jara Martinez , Pilar Hidalgo Lim , Concepcion Felix Rodriguez , Corazon Torres and Josefa Llanes Escoda, she was one of the organizers of a multilingual radio campaign to introduce women's suffrage in the Commonwealth of the Philippines . The Commonwealth Constitution stipulated that women's suffrage should be introduced when there were 300,000 women's support signatures. On the day of the plebiscite on April 30, 1937, there were 447,725 support signatures from women, so that the right to vote for women was introduced.

During the tenure of President José P. Laurel , Geronima Pecson served as his private secretary from 1943 to 1945. She was then appointed in 1946 by President Manuel Roxas as Deputy Head of the Presidential Office (Assistant Executive Secretary) in the Malacañang Palace .

Senator 1947 to 1953

In the elections of November 11, 1947, eight of the 24 seats in the Senate were reassigned. Geronima Pecson was elected in this election as a candidate of the Liberal Party for a six-year term to the Senate, making it the first woman to belong to this chamber of the Philippine Congress . In this election, she took third place among a total of 21 candidates with 1,559,511 votes (47.8 percent).

During her six-year Senate tenure, Geronima Pecson chaired several key committees such as the Senate Committee on Education , the Senate Committee on Health and Public Welfare, and the Joint Congressional Committee on Education) . She was also a member of the Commission on Appointments and the Senate Electoral Tribunal . She was instrumental in advocating various laws in the field of education and was particularly involved in the Free and Compulsory Education Act of 1953 . In addition, she worked on the formation of the Vocational Education Act , the law introducing teacher training institutions at special state art and business schools, and the law transforming the University of the Philippines Forestry School into a college. She also presented the initiative on the Municipal Library Law . At times she was also acting chairwoman of the home finance company HFC ( Home Financing Corporation ) and had previously campaigned in the legislative process for housing finance.

In the elections of November 10, 1953, she applied for re-election for one of the eight new Senate seats to be awarded, but narrowly missed reelection in the Senate as ninth among the 20 candidates with 1,349,163 votes (31.2 percent). In the elections of November 8, 1955, she ran again for re-election to the Senate, but with 1,340,800 votes (26.6 percent), being twelfth among 21 applicants, she again missed one of the eight seats to be awarded. In this election only applicants from the Nacionalista Party (NP) were chosen.

Member of the UNESCO Executive Committee

In 1950 she was the first Filipino and the first woman to be elected as a member of the Executive Committee of UNESCO , and in 1958 she was re-elected in this capacity. Together with Pedro Abella, she campaigned for the Director General of UNESCO, René Maheu , to ratify a convention against disadvantage in education in the 1960s .

She has received several awards for her longstanding services in the public service and politics, including the Legion of Honor Award , the Pro Patria Presidential Award and, in 1964, the Outstanding Award for outstanding services in education.

Geronima T. Pecson was married to Potenciano Pecson, whom she had met while studying.

Publications

  • Tales of the American Teachers in the Philippines , co-author Maria Racelis, 1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz-Jürgen Aubeck: The Philippines: the story of a lost paradise , p. 166, 2006, ISBN 3-83345-436-9
  2. ^ Leonard Davis: Revolutionary Struggle In The Philippines , pp. 126, 1989, ISBN 1-34919-862-5
  3. ↑ Early Feminism in the Philippines on the Asia Foundation homepage (March 7, 2012)
  4. ↑ Women mark anniversary of right to vote . In: Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 30, 2011
  5. ↑ Note: The first woman to be a member of the House of Representatives was Elisa Ochoa , who was elected in the November 11, 1941 elections.
  6. ↑ Gender divide in the PH Senate: 217 males, 20 females in 88 years (pcij.blog of March 7, 2015)
  7. ↑ Too many showbiz politicians ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Philippine Star of August 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philstar.com
  8. ↑ Oh women; Amen . In: The Manila Times, March 28, 2014
  9. ↑ GR No. L-4638, May 8, 1951
  10. ^ The Filipino Moving Onward 5 , p. 259, 2007, ISBN 9-71234-154-2
  11. ↑ History of PPSTA. 67 Years of Enhancing the Lives of the Public School Teachers ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the PPSTA homepage  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ppsta.net
  12. ^ History of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) on the NLP homepage
  13. ↑ Official Month in Review: March 1952 ( Official Gazette of the Government of the Philippines)
  14. ↑ EXECUTIVE BOARD AT ITS TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION (July 11, 1951) on the UNESCO homepage
  15. ^ The Filipino Moving Onward 6 , p. 265, 2008, ISBN 9-71234-155-0
  16. ↑ James Patrick Sewell: UNESCO and World Politics: Engaging In International Relations , p. 151, 2015, ISBN 1-40087-106-9
  17. ↑ UNESCO - NatCom 60 Years of Partnership ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Philippines National Commission for UNESCO  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unesco.gov.ph
  18. ↑ Official Month in Review: October 1952 ( Official Gazette of the Government of the Philippines)
  19. ^ Charles A. Ferguson, Shirley Brice Heath, David Hwang: Language in the USA , p. 565, 1981, ISBN 0-52129-834-2 (publication reference )
personal data
SURNAME Pecson, Geronima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pecson, Geronima Tomelden (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Barrio Libsong, Lingayen , Pangasinan
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1989