Throughout history, several women of great courage have emerged who have facilitated the path of many of those who have succeeded them, from the time they obtained the pilot’s license to the Nobel Prize, achieved unthinkable achievements at the time, because they were limited to men. We will delve into the biography of one of them: Dolores Aleu Riera.
Each of these women dared to do something different from what society expected at the time just because of their status as women, breaking down barriers in contexts where until now there were only men.
- For a long time.
- Women were not allowed to study.
- Teach at universities.
- Or participate in scientific institutions; Through their bravery.
- Determination and strength.
- They not only made a difference and left their mark.
- They also inspired and inspired the courage of many others.
We will delve into the story of Dolores Aleu Riera below
Dolores Aleu Riera was born in Barcelona in 1857, a family with a good social position, belonging to the Barcelona bourgeoisie of the 19th century, faced with her insistent desire to pursue a university education, her parents finally gave in and she entered medicine at the age of 17. .
Dolores has always played brilliantly, thanks to her efforts and also her vocation, and was supported by her parents and several of her peers; however, she was also despised by those who disagreed and did not accept that a woman had been accepted into a doctor. Career.
Occasionally he would get to boo and knock on the school door, so for a while he had to be accompanied by an escort, a condition imposed on him by his parents so that he could continue his studies.
At first, the Ministry of Education rejected his application for a diploma test and thus obtained a medical degree. Ministry employees contacted the university to verify that Dolores had effectively enrolled and attended the medical school program, although he was not a man.
The university responded that it had accepted entry after filing the high school approval document.
In 1882, at the insistence of her teachers, she obtained permission to take the examination of the Ministry of Education, thus becoming the first Spanish woman to obtain the title of doctor with an excellent grade.
Months later, she decided to present a doctoral thesis and contacted Professor Joan Giné and Partags, but at first it was not clear that defending a woman’s case in a men’s court was a good idea, as the same group had previously denied women’s right to appear. .
In presenting her doctoral thesis, there was a clear defense for equality and equity between men and women, and she harshly criticized the way women are treated, relegated to childcare, locked up at home and stripped of all political rights.
He is a specialist in gynecology and pediatrics, with the support of his family managed to open a medical clinic in Barcelona, for 25 years he treated middle-class people who spent years with untreated gynecological medical conditions because they were afraid or ashamed to go. to a doctor and go to a gynecological consultation with a man.
She has also served single mothers, homeless workers, prostitutes and orphaned children.
Dolores Aleu Riera also worked as a professor of household hygiene at the Academy of Women’s Enlightenment. There he created a general education program in which he addressed issues of hygiene and domestic medicine, as well as the home economy and the care and care of his children.
He died at the age of 56 after suffering severe depression following his son’s untimely death from tuberculosis.
What a door of happiness closes, another opens; but many times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the others that have opened to us?-Helen Keller-
Nuria Cuys, great-great-grandfather of Dolores Aleu Riera, is today a celebrated actress and theater director who paid homage to her great-grandmother through the Spanish play Corsés de ballena?Whale corset in Portuguese. He represented Dolores’ path and overcavised all obstacles.
It is a work that plays with the metaphor of the corset on an animal as powerful as a whale, a garment used for aesthetic purposes to adjust the body of the woman in the nineteenth century, which tightens the waist until the person is almost breathless.
This work aims to raise awareness of the history of struggle and improvement present in the biography of Dolores Aleu Riera, who was able to survive and revolutionize a world dominated by men, a world in which women lived in corsets, drowned, oppressed and unable to prove their worth.
“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman, but can it be very difficult to search for that voice?-Melinda Gates-