Eloísa Díaz

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.