Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón
Mexican diplomat, cabinet minister, minister plenipotentiary and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón (1898 – 1986) was a Mexican diplomat, cabinet minister, minister plenipotentiary, writer, and the first female member of a presidential cabinet. She distinguished herself for fighting for women rights including her efforts to secure women's voting rights in 1952.
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Born | Amalia González Caballero (1898-08-18)18 August 1898 Santander Jiménez, Jiménez, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
Died | 2 June 1986(1986-06-02) (aged 87) Mexico City, Mexico |
Nationality | Mexican |
Other names | Amalia de Castillo Ledón |
Occupation(s) | diplomat, Cabinet Minister, feminist, suffragette, journalist, writer |
Years active | 1929–1980 |
Castillo Ledon studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She was founder and chair of Club Internacional de Mujeres (1932) and the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres (1937). She also founded the Teatro de Masas. She was associated with the journal Hogar and was a columnist for Excelsior. At the founding of the United Nations she served as delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[1] Since 2012, her remains rest in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres.