Relevant women in education

CLARA CAMPOAMOR is one of the most important women in Spain beacuse she had fought for the equality between womens and mens. She was a lawyer and politician from Madrid, also she was a representative in the Constituent Assembly, in the second republic period. She was one of the main precursor of feminism in Spain.
Campoamor won the women's vote in the first republican elections and also prompted the first law of divorce.
She had been involved in some associations and giving several lectures. Although already 36 years old, it becomes one of the few Spanish lawyers of the time, and immediately begins to practice their profession.

Her ideas on equality of women  were approached to the PSOE and writes the book's foreword Socialist Feminism of Mary Cambrils, dedicated to Pablo Iglesias. But she never joined the party and dindn´t accept this collaboration with the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

 

When it was the proclamation of the Second Republic, Clara Campoamor was elected representative (in 1931 women could be elected, but not be choosers) by the Radical Party, which had joined as "republican, liberal, secular and democratic."

SHe was part of preparing the draft of the Constitution of the new Republic, where struggled effectively to establish non-discrimination on grounds of sex, the legal equality of children born within and outside marriage, divorce and universal suffrage, often called "women's vote". He got everything except with regard to the vote, which had to be debated in the Spanish Cortes.

 

The Left, with the exception of a group of socialists and some Republicans, they did not want women vote  because the thought that women would vote the Church (they have a good relation and influence)  and would vote in favor of the right. Therefore, the Radical Socialist Party stood before Clara to another deputy, Victoria Kent, contrary to the vote of women.
The final debate on October 1 was extraordinary and Campoamor was considered the winner. Finally, Article 34 approval that allowed the women's suffrage was achieved.

 

Then she wrote and published in May 1935, “Mi pecado mortal”. El voto femenino y yo, un testimonio de sus luchas parlamentarias. After the military coup of 1936 she went into exile. He lived in France and Argentina and in 1955, settled permanently in a Swiss city, where she practiced law and where she died in 1972.