Education
Elena Maseras, First Woman to Study Medicine in The University of Barcelona
She was born on May 25, 1853 in Vilaseca, Spain, raised in a family of doctors, she decided to follow in her family’s footsteps when she finished her bachelor of arts, but it was quite a challenge. She had to obtain a royal order from King Armadeo of Savoy, which allowed women to study in […]
Aurora Reyes, The First Woman Muralist in Mexico
“I am completely primitive and wild. I love freedom above all else” Aurora Reyes Aurora Reyes The activist, painter, poet and teacher Aurora Reyes was born on September 9, 1908 in Chihuahua Mexico, in a prestigious family that supported the government of Porfirio Diaz. During her childhood difficult times came, given the fall of the […]
Dafne Almazan, the first Mexican under 18 admitted to Harvard
What would your plans be if you had already graduated from the University at 14 ? Dafne Almazan Anaya She was born in Mexico at the beginning of this century and has an extraordinary ability to learn, which has led to an academic life at a dizzying pace and out of series. Knowing the chronology […]
Gabriela Mistral, The First Latin American Woman To Win The Nobel Prize
Gabriel Mistral December 1945, Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, better known as Gabriela Mistral, received the Nobel Prize for Literature, became the first woman in Latin America to receive this award. She was born in 1889 in a small town in Chile, daughter of a rural teacher who abandoned his family when Gabriela was 3 years old. […]