On February 21, public lecture will be held at the Georgian National University SEU on the topic: ‘’Women and the First Constitution of Georgia’’, the first women MPs will be discussed at the public lecture.
Speaker: Anna Pirtskhalashvili – doctor of law, professor, SEU Vice-Rector for Scientific Research.
Time: 15:00.
Georgia celebrates the day of the first Constitution of Georgia of February 21, 1921 adopted by the First Republic. The mentioned document was one of the most progressive documents in the developed world of that time.
According to that constitution, the right to vote was granted to women in the Democratic Republic of Georgia, earlier than in many developed countries, universal elections were held, where both men and women were taking part.
In 1919, the meeting of founders of the legislative body of the Democratic Republic of Georgia was composed of 130 deputies, among them 5 were women.
