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158:, collaborating with activists from Latin America and the United States to study the condition of women across the Americas and to recommend reforms. González remained a vital organizer for women's rights in Panama for decades and ran for political office after Panamanian women were granted voting rights in 1945. She later became the first Panamanian woman to serve as a juvenile court judge, where she assisted in drafting the Panamanian juvenile code. 273:, the chair of the commission, who assigned González to work on legal issues and women's rights in the Pan-American Union office in Washington, D.C. From 1928 to 1930. González acted as the head of research for the IACW, overseeing the creation of reports on the status of women's rights on a nation-by-nation basis in order to inform future international conferences and provide women's rights conventions with up-to-date information. 301:, which aligned themselves with European fascism. These activities and her support for socialism led Panamanian government officials to accuse González of being a communist and deny her a government posting. While she was not a member of the Communist Party, she did work with communist activists when she traveled to Mexico in 1938. While in Mexico, she became involved with the 322:(National Women's Party). She ran as a candidate for the Constitutional Assembly of 1945 with the support of the Liberal Renewal Party, and later ran for the vice-presidency of Panama, but failed to win office in both campaigns. González continued her activities as a feminist organizer, working on issues of child welfare with UNESCO, as well as serving as an official in the 269:(IACW) was established as an intergovernmental body to study the conditions of women throughout the Americas. This represented a central event in the formation of a pan-American movement for women's rights. González was appointed to the commission as a representative for Panama. She was also contacted by 292:
González took an inclusionary stance towards women’s rights by collaborating with groups that emphasized the importance of analyzing the needs of intersecting identities, such as class and ethnicity, when fighting for equality. During the 1930s, the anti-fascist alliance between liberals and radicals
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Eventually, González grew resentful of Stevens's unilateral style of leadership and her dismissive approach towards Latin American women's issues. Stevens denied González and other Latin American activists IACW funding in order to attend the very conferences that González's research was prepared for.
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In 1951, she became the first Panamanian woman named as a juvenile court judge, a position that gave her the opportunity to assist in establishing standards for the treatment of juvenile delinquents. She continued working for the juvenile court until 1964, when she retired at her husband's request
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In the early 1920s, González started to gravitate towards radical groups that supported socialism and anti-imperialism. She began to advocate for social and economic justice in addition to civil rights and suffrage for women. González took strong positions on issues of Panamanian sovereignty
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Stevens also avoided issues raised by activists over U.S. imperialism and denied leadership posts within the IACW to Latin American activists. As a result, González began to strengthen her relationship with more radical Latin American feminists, such as Cuban activist
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through Popular Front politics provided González and other Latin American feminists with the opportunity to advocate for women's social and economic rights. González pursued these goals through a renewal of her work with the
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González returned to Panama in 1930 and began working as a professor at the National Institute teaching economics, political science and sociology. She taught at the Institute until 1937, and later at the newly-founded
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The School of Public Prosecutors in Panama bears her name, as does an annual award given by the National Union of Lawyers to the legal professional who has excelled in the fight for women's or human rights.
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In the early 1940s, González continued her work as a women's rights organizer in Panama. In 1943, she married Charles A. Behringer, an American civil engineer working in the Panama Canal Zone.
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to a Spanish immigrant, David González, and Basilia Carrillo Sánchez, a woman of indigenous descent. During her early childhood, she lived with her family in
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including opposition to the Panama Canal Treaty, and she connected Latin American women's issues to the necessity for national self-determination.
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In 1945, Panamanian women won the right to vote, leading to González's entry into electoral politics. In December 1944, she founded the
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movement that favored women's participation in politics led González and women leaders like
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Feminism for the Americas : the making of an international human rights movement
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After winning a scholarship in 1927, González moved to the United States to attend
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Clara González died after complications from a hip surgery in
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In 1922, she became the first Panamanian woman to earn a
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Clara González Carrillo was born on 11 September 1898 in
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Clara González de Berhinger

Remedios
Chiriquí Province
Panama Department
Panama City
Bachelor of Law
Inter-American Commission on Women
Remedios
Chiriquí Province
Republic of Panama
Costa Rica
Bachelor of Law
Belisario Porras
feminist
Sara Sotillo
Elida Campodónico de Crespo
Rosa Navas
New York University
Inter-American Commission of Women
Doris Stevens
Ofelia Domínguez Navarro
University of Panama
Frente Único Pro-Derechos de la Mujer
International Federation of Women Lawyers
West Covina, California
Panama City
First women lawyers around the world
Confederación Sindical Obrera y Agraria

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