Greatest Chilean

Welcome you all, today I am going to talk about an outstanding person, a woman that put a line between past and present in South America. She certainly did great stuff but sadly is not as recognised as she deserves. I am talking about Eloisa Diaz.

She was born in 1866 and died in 1950 at the age of 84, her parents were Carmela Inzunza and Eulogio Diaz.

She was the first woman studying medicine and the first in becoming a doctor too. She postulated to Universidad de Chile medicine school in 1880, when she was only 15 years old, and by the time, thinking about a woman studying at a university was insane, but she kept fighting, proving that she and all women deserve equal rights.

She got over all prejudgement, and once being a doctor, she started to work at Hospital San Borja.

She started a timeline full of women fighting for her rights, and that is something that certainly has helped inspire today's women fight for not only rights but equal respect overall.

If I had the chance to meet her, I would like to ask her what inspired her to study, what inspired her to do what she did, surely it was not easy. What is like to be studying while being the only woman and what helped her to go on no matter the discrimination she received. Maybe also ask her if she would be proud of what she reached for  women and all that comes for equal rights in future.