Aída Parada

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Parada and the second or maternal family name is Hernández.
Aída Parada
A young woman with dark hair in a short, full cut, dark eyes, and fair skin; she is wearing a dark turtleneck top with a pendant necklace
Aída Parada, from a 1930 publication
BornOctober 1903
Linares, Chile
Died16 October 1983
Santiago, Chile
Occupation(s)Educator, feminist

Aída Parada Hernández (October 1903 – 16 October 1983) was a Chilean educator, feminist, founding member of Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile (Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chilean Women) and the first Chilean delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women.

Biography

Aída Parada Hernández[1] was born in October 1903 in Linares, Chile to Juan Parada and his wife Margarita Hernández. She completed her primary and secondary education in Linares and then attended the Talca Normal School between 1919 and 1924, earning a teaching degree.[2][note 1] She also founded a school in Linares for adult education.[4] After receiving a master's degree from the Talca Normal School, she taught at her alma mater for 3 years.[4] Then in 1930, she received a fellowship to study at Columbia University in Manhattan[2] and completed both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts before returning home to Chile.[4]

After the 1928 founding of the Inter-American Commission of Women, the women decided to meet every two years, in addition to meeting for the scheduled Pan-American Conferences to foster on-going unity and continuity. As such, the first meeting was held in Havana in 1930.[5] The members were, Flora de Oliveira Lima (Brazil), Aída Parada (Chile), Lydia Fernández (Costa Rica), Elena Mederos de González (Cuba), Gloria Moya de Jiménez (Dominican Republic), Irene de Peyré (Guatemala), Margarita Robles de Mendoza (Mexico), Juanita Molina de Fromen (Nicaragua), Clara González (Panama), Teresa Obregoso de Prevost (Peru), and Doris Stevens (USA).[6] As their governments provided no funding for their attendance, only the women from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, the United States[5] and delegates from Alicia Ricode de Herrera (Colombia), MMe Fernand Dennis (Haiti), El Salvador by proxy and Cecilia Herrera de Olavarría (Venezuela) were there.[6]

In 1935,[7] a group of women, who like Parada had studied abroad, got together and founded the Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chilean Women (Spanish: Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile). Among others, the founders included: Elena Caffarena, Flora Heredia, Evangelina Matte, Graciela Mandujano, Aída Parada, Olga Poblete, María Ramírez [es], Eulogia Román [es], Marta Vergara and Clara Williams de Yunge. Their goals were to address the social prejudices that curtailed women's equality in the labor market[8] and to introduce women's voices into national politics on matters concerning biology, economics, judicial, and political rights for women.[9] Between 1935 and 1952, she was one of the core feminists working with MEMCH and representing Chile at international meetings and conferences.[1]

She was teaching at the Pedagogic Institute (now the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences Spanish: Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación) in the faculty of philosophy and education, when in 1947, Parada was named as a professor of the Department of Technical Assessment at the University of Chile. In 1948, she was briefly married to León Chamúdez, but they were separated within a year. She continued teaching until her retirement in June, 1973.[2]

Parada died in Santiago, Chile on 16 October 1983.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Egaña Baraona, Núñez P. & Salinas 2003, p. 169-170.
  2. ^ a b c d Ríos-Rojas, Alejandro (11 February 2012). "Aída Parada" (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Alejandro Ríos-Rojas Blogspot. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Rios Rojas Alejandro: Médicos - Santiago" (in Spanish). findthecompany. Retrieved 8 September 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ a b c "Two portraits of Aida Parada". Harvard University Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute. c. 1930. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  5. ^ a b Towns, Ann (2010). "The Inter-American Commission of Women and Women's Suffrage, 1920-1945". Journal of Latin American Studies (42). UK: Cambridge University Press: 793. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  6. ^ a b Seminar_on_Feminism_and_Culture_in_Latin_America 1990, p. 17.
  7. ^ "El Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Feministas pioneras". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  9. ^ Lavrin 1998, pp. 310–311.

Notes

  1. ^ Blog author is a professor and physician. Has taught at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, USACH, and Universidad de Chile[3]

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