Since it was founded in 1992, the Salvadoran leftist Women's Movement (MAM)), named after a hero of the revolution, Melida Anaya Montes, has made great strides in educating and empowering women to demand and win their rights, and to improve their lives through political organizing.

In the legislative elections in March, women were instrumental in winning the FMLN's increase in power and representation. Women comprise fully a third of the Frente's new delegation to the Assembly. (In contrast, less than 10% of the other parties' deputies are women.) Diane Green of the National office of CISPES (The Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) in New York said, "It is the youth, the women, and the campesinos in every municipality that delivered democracy to El Salvador."

Through the Work-A-Thon on May 31st, CISCAP once again funded the MAM's organizing, this time supporting their coalition project with the Salvadoran Federation of Labor Unions (FEASIES) to educate and support women workers in the sweatshops. That project included a free hotline providing legal advice to maquila workers, billboards and radio ads about the conditions in the maquilas, and leadership training for organizers in the sweatshops.