Women in Argentina of Argentina until her death in 2011. Following President Juan Perón's enactment of women's suffrage in 1949, First Lady Evita Perón led the Peronist Women's Party until her death in 1952, and helped enhance the role of women in Argentine society. Women played a significant role as both supporters and opponents of the National Reorganization Process, Argentina's last dictatorship, in the late 1970s, and the establishment of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an advocacy group led by mothers of the disappeared, was done by Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti and, mostly, other women, on the rationale that they would
First Lady of Colombia did not signify the marginalization of the First Lady from political activity, and that she as wife of the President embodied the idea of national unity. Since then, the First Lady has continued to pursue, at her discretion, humanitarian causes in an "ad honorem" capacity. Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive. María Teresa Londoño Sáenz led the collection for donations during the Colombia–Peru War, María Michelsen Lombana championed orphans' rights and care, Lorenza Villegas Restrepo pioneered public for health