Pilar Espuña i Domènech

Pilar Espuña i Domènech (1928–2010) (in Spanish: Pilar Espuña Domènech) was a Spanish-Catalan bank worker known primarily for her labor and feminist activism. She became the first woman elected president of the workers' syndicate group Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica in Barcelona and was reelected a decade later.

Biography Espuña was born in Barcelona on 19 June 1928, in the neighborhood of Vilapicina and Torre Llobeta. Her father was a railway worker from Escalona (Huesca), and her mother came from Manlleu (Barcelona).

In 1966, Espuña began her community activities in earnest. She became part of the Banking Coordinator and was active in the assembly movement. During that year, she joined the workers' syndicate group Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica (HOAC) (in English, Catholic Action). She was elected by her coworkers as a banking union liaison, and from that time on, she remained committed to defending the rights of her fellow bank workers. During that year, she also joined the feminist movement. The next year, she assumed diocesan responsibility for the dissemination of the HOAC. In 1969, she was the first woman elected president of the HOAC of Barcelona, and she was elected to that position again in the early 1980s.

Tributes In 2001, she was honored with a street plaque and a tribute from the Turó de la Peira Neighborhood Association in recognition of her "militant career."