[1] The reform was introduced during the military dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
[2] The women's movement in Colombia started late compared to other countries.
The suffrage movement was mainly focused around the two biggest cities and consisted of well educated elite women from Liberal and Socialist families from the middle and upper classes.
When a female lawyer was rejected from her quest to become a judge in 1944, women organized in the Liberal Union Femenina de Colombia (UFC) in 1944 and the Socialist Alianza Femenina in 1945 to demand women's suffrage.
In the public debate, the matter was long a question of only suffrage and not the right to be elected.