Isabel Arrúa Vallejos

Isabel Arrúa Vallejo or Vallejos (1913/1914-2006) was a Paraguayan teacher, diplomat and feminist. She was Paraguay's first woman with diplomatic rank, as attaché of the Embassy of Paraguay to Brazil from 1945 to 1948.[1]

Life

Isabel Arrua Vallejos was born in Villeta.[2] (Some sources give her year of birth as 1913,[3] and others give it as 1914.[2]) She became a teacher, and also worked as a nurse on the front line in the 1932-35 Chaco War.[4]

In 1942 she entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] She also worked at the Embassy of Paraguay in Washington, D.C., from 1949 to 1950.[4]

An associate of Federico Chávez, Vallejo was a founder-member of the Paraguayan League for Women's Rights, established in 1951, and edited the League's newspaper, El Feminista.[5] She was a national deputy and delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women.[2]

She died in Asunción in 2006.[2] In 2012 her life was celebrated in the Paseo de Ilustres, a public space in Villeta dedicated to the memory of ten people from the city.[3]

References

  1. ^ Lois Decker O'Neill, ed. (1983). The Women's Book of World Records and Achievements. Da Capo Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-306-80206-5.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Connotadas feministas paraguayas]". ABC Color. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Villeta inaugurará su Paseo de Ilustres". SC Noticias. March 5, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Isabel Arrúa Vallejos". Kuña Roga.
  5. ^ Jasmine Duarte Sckell (2021). "Obtención de derechos civiles y políticos para mujeres en Paraguay durante la dictadura de Alfredo Stroessner". Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos.