I will write about Eloísa Díaz, I think she was a very
important person that influenced in the history of all Chilean and
Latinoamerican women and thanks to many things she did we (women) have had
reach a space in a patriarchal society.
She was born the 25th of June in 1866, and she was the very
first medical woman student in Chile and Latinoamérica at this university. She
graduated in December of 1880 with an interesting thesis about observations of
puberty in girls.
Eloísa also was the first headmistress of the Servicio
Médico Escolar de Chile. In this institution she tried to establish an
obligatory student breakfast with her own money, she also promoted massive vaccines
for students and she fought against alcoholism and many others medical
problems.
This important woman is a real fighter because in those years
where she lived it was very difficult to live as a woman and especially if you
wanted to be a professional or do something else that just be at the service of
men. Even though many times she was the only woman surrounded by men, she kept
her eye on her goals.
I would definitely ask her what kind of comments she received
in her professional times and in who did she rely on when the society was
intolerable for her.
