Throughout its fifty years of existence, the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), founded on August 23, 1960, has made it possible for women to change every space of the island’s social, economic and political sectors, by way of self-denial, love and devotion.

In our country, no-one can talk about the development of a cultural, socioeconomic or scientific field in which women have not participated. Women have become an active part of our society, because they have taken advantage of the opportunities given to them to join, after the triumph revolution in 1959, all areas of development and knowledge, training and work.

The work of Cuban women is a revolution within a revolution, because despite the campaigns trying to stigmatize their image, their integration into society is a fact, under the leadership of Vilma Espín, a Rebel Army combatant and one of our heroines, whose sensitivity and bravery made her deserve an eternal and insuperable place in the process of struggle for Cuban women’s equal rights, hence her symbolism and example in the work of the FMC.

Without mentioning their participation in the historic period of the early years of the organization, Cuban women have joined, with creativity and richness, significant moments of our recent history.

At the end of the 1990s, the Revolution, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, developed a great program aimed at guiding youth. In the 170 projects within the Battle of Ideas, our women were present in the movement of social workers, joining the ranks of emerging teachers and nurses, art instructors, comprehensive general teachers, and the new world of Computing.

In addition, many women of this Caribbean island also joined the brigades of the anti-vector campaign created to visit each and every home; others, joined education in municipalities or contributed to strengthen the development of new educational channels on Cuban television and promote the “University for All” project, thus making Marti‘s phrase valid: "There is no beautiful work in which the hand of a woman is not involved.”

There are a lot of women workers in our national radio system that have deserved a special place in the history of this media –soon to celebrate its 88th birthday- due to their creativity.

Throughout the country, most women radio workers have a double task -at home and at their work place. Besides being mothers, sisters, daughters and wives, they’re efficient actresses, announcers, producers, program directors, editors, and journalists. 

May this special acknowledgement, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the FMC, get to those women radio workers who keep in the air dissimilar programs dedicated to the education of women, health, children, youngsters, and the elderly men and women of the so-called “third age.”

At present, some 3,867 women work in the radio system. They constitute a creative power, inspired in the example of outstanding women like Ana Betancourt, Haydee Santamaria, Vilma Espín, Mariana Grajales and the Giralt sisters, as well as unforgettable artists Consuelo Vidal and Rita Montaner.

It is the Cuban women who have forged our reality with their own hands, from which the spirit of the mothers and wives of the five Cuban anti-terrorists unfairly imprisoned in the U.S. derives, to struggle and demand justice, along with their people, hence their satisfaction for sharing Fidel’s time, his teaching, his work and his special ability to look into the future.

As stated in the declaration for the 50th anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women, read in each of the organization’s delegations: "We do not ignore difficulties, we don’t live behind their back, but we do not fear them. We will continue working day by day so the giant work of the Revolution can be perfected and developed even more."

These are our women, great ladies that, with their big smile, have carried in their knapsacks half a century of love and dedication to Fidel, their Revolution, and their homeland.

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