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Matilde Montoya: fighter for women's medical education in Mexico

In 1887 Matilde Petra Montoya (1859–1939) became the first woman to qualify as a doctor
in Mexico. By 1937, a further 83 women had graduated from Mexico s principal medical
school at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. “For
many of her contemporaries, her professional examination was a watershed”, explains
Montoya s biographer Ana María Carrillo Farga, Professor of the History of Medicine
at UNAM, “establishing the right of Mexican women to study and practise the liberal
professions”. ....

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