Broken Promises

This chapter follows the story of how APRA first promoted equal political rights for women and then relegated women to second-class status within the party. Women helped to build the party from its foundations. Yet Apristas put social class before gender to argue for caution in extending political rights lest women support conservative candidates. Haya’s rivalry with the party’s most powerful female leader, Magda Portal may have contributed to women’s lack of equal status within APRA. APRA had little to do with women’s finally receiving the vote in Peru in 1955.