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Bertha Lutz (1894-1976) was a Brazilian naturalist, politician, and a prominent women’s suffrage activist. Educated in natural sciences and zoology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, she returned to Brazil to earn a law degree, and became a leader of the Pan American feminist movement. 

In 1919 she became the first woman to head the National Musem in Rio de Janeiro, and her position there allowed her to have an influence on politicians and intellectual elites. She also started writing about feminist causes, and founded the League for the Intellectual Emancipation of Woman. In 1922 she affiliated with the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, for which she worked both nationally and internationally. When Brazil’s government drafted a new constitution in 1934, she campaigned for it to include women’s suffrage, and succeeded to have Brazil the third Latin-American country to grant women the vote. Following this success, in 1936 she became one of the first few women to serve in the Brazilian Congress.

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Bertha Lutz

Nascida em 2 de Agosto de 1894, em São Paulo – SP, Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz é filha de da enfermeira inglesa Amy Fowler e do pioneiro da medicina tropical/cientista Adolfo Lutz.

Por sua mãe ser inglesa, Bertha estudou o Ensino Médio e a Universidade na França, mais precisamente na Universidade de Sorbonne, em Paris, na qual ela cursou ciências naturais. Lá ela teve um amplo contato com o movimento…

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Bertha Lutz, fra attivismo politico e zoologia, di Simone Petralia

Bertha Lutz, fra attivismo politico e zoologia, di Simone Petralia

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Figura di spicco del movimento femminista, Bertha Lutz ha condotto battaglie determinanti per l’ottenimento del suffragio femminile in Brasile. Nel 1945 è stata una delle poche donne, quattro su oltre ottocento delegati, ad avere la possibilità di firmare lo Statuto delle Nazioni Unite; nel frattempo, tra una battaglia…

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Researchers: Latinas responsible for women's inclusion in the U.N. Charter

Eleanor Roosevelt gets the credit for championing women's rights at the United Nations but two researchers have found that the real heroines responsible for getting women into the U.N. Charter are from Latin America, led by a little-known Brazilian.

Eleanor Roosevelt gets the credit for championing women's rights at the United Nations but two researchers have found that the real heroines responsible for getting women into the U.N. Charter are from Latin America, led by a little-known Brazilian.

Fatima Sator and Elise Luhr Dietrichson, researchers from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, said it's important to set history straight because the U.N. Charter was the first international document to inscribe the equal rights of men and women as part of fundamental human rights.

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Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz (August 2, 1894, São Paulo – September 16, 1976, Rio de Janeiro) was a zoologist, and scientist who became a leading figure of the feminist movement in Brazil.

She was born in São Paulo. Her father, Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940), was a famous physician and epidemiologist of Swiss origin, and her mother, Amy Fowler, was a British nurse. Bertha Lutz studied natural sciences, biology and zoology at the University of Paris - Sorbonne. After returning to Brazil, she dedicated herself to the study of amphibians, especially poison dart frogs and frogs of the family Hylidae. The Lutz's Rapids Frog (Paratelmatobius lutzii, Lutz and Carvalho, 1958), was described by her. In 1919, she was hired by the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, a fact which achieved great repercussion in the country, because the access to public offices was barred to women at that time. She later became a naturalist at the Section of Botany at the same institution.

In 1918, Bertha returned to Brazil and spoke out for a feminist movement to begin. After seeing the advancements made by European and American women towards the feminist movements, she could see that Brazilian women could also help out with the movement by lending whatever aid they could to the organization. In 1922, Bertha attended the Pan American Conference of Women, and was advised by Paulina Luisi and Carrie Chapman Catt. Following the conference, Berta drew up the constitution for a group named the Brazilian Federation for Advanced of Women.

In 1934, the women of Brazil earned the right to vote due to Lutz and her organization.