Matilde Montoya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican physician
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Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
About Matilde Montoya
- Matilde Petra Montoya Lafragua (b.
- Mexico City, March 14, 1859 – d.
- Mexico City, January 26, 1939) was the first female physician in Mexico.
- Initially working as a midwife, she became one of the first women to attend and graduate Medical School, eventually earning her doctorate in 1887.
- Later she was a surgeon and obstetrician.
- Montoya played an important role in the social establishment of women's rights and the movements toward unbiased opportunities for education and occupations for women.
- There is, however, some evidence that a woman named Zenaida Ucounkoff studied medicine in 1877.
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