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| U.S.-sponsored Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon |
1941 - President Manuel L. Quezon y Molina signs the maternity-leave bill giving women in government service 60 days maternity leave with full pay
on top of the usual sick and vacation leaves during the period of
imperialist American Occupation and several months before the Japanese
occupies the Philippines in World War II; Quezon's advisers had
recommended against the bill on economic grounds but the President, perceived to be a champion of the underdog, remarked "I’ll sign that bill if it bankrupts the treasury,”
before promptly reaching for a pen; Quezon's American-sponsored
"Commonwealth period" presidency had exhibited progressiveness in terms
of women's rights and welfare as he earlier supported the women's
suffragist movement declaring about a decade earlier: "I have always
been and always will be in favor of woman suffrage."
Photo credit: http://bentley.umich.edu/research/guides/philippines/philipp_search.php?id=79
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