Name Josefa de | Died 1962, Managua, Nicaragua | |
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Josefa Toledo de Aguirre or Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo (21 April 1866 – 27 April 1962), was a Nicaraguan feminist, writer and reform pedagogue. She is regarded as a pioneer for education of women in Nicaragua. She was the most famous feminist and suffragist in Nicaragua in the mid-1930s. She supported Concepción Palacios Herrera so that she was able to study in the Normal School for Young Ladies, from which Concepción graduated in 1919. Josefa served as general director of education in 1924, the first woman of Nicaragua to be given such an office.
She graduated as one of the first from Colegio de Señoritas, the first secular college to admit women in Nicaragua, alongside among others Carmela Noguera. She was a leader of the women's rights movement in Nicaragua. She published several works about this issue, and also founded papers about this issue, the first one being Revista Femenina Ilustrada (1918). In 1920 she visited feminists in Cuba and the United States, including meeting with the suffragist Amelia Maiben de Ostolaza in Havana. In 1940 she published a series of essays called "Feminism and Education."