Angela Smith is a women's rights activist from Gibraltar, who founded the Gibraltar Women's Association (GWA)].[1][2] The GWA stemmed from the Gibraltar Housewives Association, which was established by Smith.[1] She was chair of the association from 1966 to 1969.[1] In 1966 she organised a petition, signed by 96% of the women's electorate, designed to demonstrate to the British government that Gibraltar wished to remain British.[3][4] The same year, when General Franco banned Spanish women from crossing the border to work in Gibraltar, Smith was instrumental in establishing a Gibraltarian women's workforce.[5] In 2016, at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the GWA, a letter from Smith was read out by her daughter.[6]
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- ^ Hansard HL Deb. vol. 289 cols. 290-292. 15 February 1968 [online] Date accessed: 10 March 2023. Available from: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1968-02-15/debates/91a0c231-f658-4d0c-8e7f-fe38079c7dd1/Gibraltar
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- ^ Hansard. HC. Deb. vol. 764 cols. 225-226. 7 June 1968 [online] [Accessed 10 March 2023] Available from: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1968-06-07/debates/1661ef82-2b11-4d3e-8778-fae7e01f2963/Gibraltar
- ^ "Feb 17 - Gibraltar Women's Association Marks 50th Anniversary". Your Gibraltar TV. Retrieved 2023-03-10.