Hilda Nélida Castañeira
Hilda Nélida Castañeira | |
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National Senator | |
In office 1952–1955 | |
Constituency | Santa Fe |
Personal details | |
Born | 19 November 1926 Rosario, Argentina |
Died | 4 November 2007 | (aged 80)
Hilda Nélida Castañeira de Baccaro (19 November 1926 – 4 November 2007) was an Argentine politician. She was elected to the Senate in 1951 as one of the first group of female parliamentarians in Argentina.
Biography
Castañeira was born in Rosario in 1926.[1] She studied at the Nuestra Señora del Huerto college in Rosario and became a primary school teacher in Ibarlucea. She later taught in Rosario and at the National Boys College.[1] In 1945 she founded the Martín Fierro Institute for the Teaching of Folk Arts and Customs and began working at the Port of Rosario as secretary of the customs administrator.[1]
In 1949 Castañeira was a founder member of the Female Peronist Party. Two years later in the 1951 legislative elections, she was one of six women elected to the Senate.[2] She was the first woman to speak in the Senate,[1] and became president of the Labour Committee and secretary of the External Relations Committee.[3] She remained in office until 1955 when her term was ended early by the Revolución Libertadora.[1]
She later became political secretary of the women's branch of the Peronist Party and served as a city councillor in Buenos Aires from 1973 to 1976.[1] She died in November 2007.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Hilda Nélida Castañeira HCDN
- ^ Conmemoraron el Día Nacional de los Derechos Políticos de la Mujer Parlamentario, 24 September 2019
- ^ Diario de sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores, Senado de la Nación, 1952
- ^ Falleció la primera senadora nacional Parlamentario, 5 November 2007
- 1926 births
- People from Rosario, Santa Fe
- Argentine educators
- Women members of the Argentine Senate
- Justicialist Party politicians
- Members of the Argentine Senate for Santa Fe
- 2007 deaths
- Members of the Buenos Aires City Legislature
- 20th-century Argentine politicians
- 20th-century Argentine women politicians
- 20th-century Argentine women educators
- 20th-century Argentine educators