The Organization of Angolan Women (Portuguese: Organização Mulher Angolana (OMA)) is a political organisation in Angola, which was founded in 1962 to target women to support the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
[1] The Organization of Angolan Women was established in 1962 and was originally founded to rally support for the new political party known as the MPLA.
[7]: 10 [8]: 19, 93 When the organization was restructured in 1983,[8]: 22–23 she was elected as the secretary general of the OMA and the head of its fifty-three-member national committee.
[9] The OMA expanded education for women and created programs to increase literacy among women, and during the 1980s the Angolan government created laws against gender discrimination in wages and working conditions.
[5] In 1999, Luzia Inglês Van-Dúnem was elected secretary-general of the OMA, and she was re-elected in 2005.