Popular cultural action: a contribution to the education of rural women in Colombia

Abstract

The article gives a description of the work of ACPO in favor of rural women since 1947. Several difficulties were to be faced in order to rise women dignity by a proper education which required a change in social values as well as a new approach toward gender attitudes. Because of traditional constraints this task required extreme efforts in rural environments. By ACPO´s activities in the forties, “from cooking bending on the soil stove, women were raised to play chess upon tables face to face with clear sights”. By this clever process many of them were empowered to ascend into conditions of group leadership and social influence.