Julieta Lanteri: Google celebrates the 150th anniversary of its birth with a doodle

Google features a new animated design, one of its famous scribblesin commemoration of the birth of one of the great exponents of Argentine feminism: Giulietta Lanteri. She was born in Italy on March 22, 1873, she is the founder of the Argentine University Association, together with the first medical graduate in Argentina, Dr. Cecilia Grierson.

Furthermore, Lanteri boasts a unique achievement in the country: it was the first woman to votein 1911. Furthermore, she is the main founder of the National Feminist Partya political party that has sought civil equality before the law of children conceived out of wedlock and female voting, among other proposals.

The career and activism of Julieta Lanteri

In the year 1886, Julieta Lanteri entered the National College of La Plataone of the four dependent institutes of the National University of La Plata, which allowed her to continue her studies at the university level. In 1891 she decided what her calling was medicinal, but at that time the career did not allow female students to participate. Even so, Lanteri was able to enter the race with special permission from the doctor Leopoldo Montes de Gocacreator of the Argentine Medical Association.

Julieta Lanteri was the fifth doctor received in Argentina and worked mainly, perfecting her knowledge, in the Ramos Mejia Hospital. It was in 1906, however, that she began to actively participate in conferences and congresses dedicated to feminism and gender equality. It was held that year International Congress of Free Thoughtwhere he participated in exhibitions with other references such as Sara Justo, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane and Raquel Camaña.

In 1910, together with other colleagues, he developed the International Congress of Women, which was based in Buenos Aires and was one of the first international feminist events. But it was the following year when she fulfilled one of her main orders: the female vote. The Municipality of Buenos Aires had summoned citizens to update their data for the electoral rolls, but made no mention of anything related to gender.

For this reason a judge, after she had asked to be registered before the courts, deemed her request legitimate and allowed her to participate in the elections. Lanteri voted on November 26, 1911 in the Parish of San Juan Evangelista, in the La Boca neighborhood, thus becoming the first woman to vote in Argentina.

Then he raised a long political career, together with her aforementioned party, with which she was a candidate for national deputy. However, her political participation brought him enemies from conservative sectors, which would end his homocide in 1932 after being hit by a motorist and fleeing.