Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== El Salvador ====

Between June 1921 and January 1922, when El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica formed a (second) [[Federal Republic of Central America|Federation of Central America]], the Constitution of this state included women's suffrage on 9 September 1921, but the reform could never be implemented because the Federation (and thereby its constitution) did not last.<ref name="BGSmith" />

The campaign for women's suffrage begun in the 1920s, notably by the leading figure [[Prudencia Ayala]].<ref name="BGSmith" />

Women obtained the legal right to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections in 1939.<ref name="BGSmith" />  However, the qualifications were extreme and excluded 80 percent of women so the suffrage movement continued its campaign in the 1940s, notably by [[Matilde Elena López]] and [[Ana Rosa Ochoa]], until the restrictions was lifted in 1950.<ref name="BGSmith" />