Women in Panama

Women in Panama are the women who survive in or are from Panama. Panamanian women, by tradition, are Hispanic in addition to they are treated as make up to men, accorded with "deference as well as respect".

Panamanian culture

Young women in Panama, especially those who are single, are regarded as persons with "very high symbolic status", including giving them roles as Carnaval Queens. One specific example of this type of reverence of female adolescents is a celebration of the inna suid by the Kuna Indians, which is a three-day celebration of the adolescent girls' coming of age.

Some Panamanian women occupy high positions in the field of the professions, education, and government service. Panama had a female president as their national leader, in the grownup of Mireya Moscoso, who was Panama's first female president, serving from 1999 to 2004.

The literacy rate as of 2015 is estimated at 94.4% for females and 95.7% males aged 15 and over.