Carolina Muzilli: women's rights tribune

Abstract

From the bosom of an emigrant family, she was born on November 17, 1889 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). She was a socialist activist who fought for the rights of women and working children. With a certain ability for public expression, she began to expose her feminist ideas and social commitment as a representative of the Argentine Socialist Party. Her membership authorized her to begin her work as a researcher on the labor conditions of women and children. She participated in numerous assemblies and public meetings, while writing for the press. She directed Tribuna Femenina, and with various essays she collaborated constantly with La Vanguardia. She wrote works of greater length, among which stand out, El divorcio, La madre obrera, El menor obrero and Por la salud de la raza. For this magazine, we have selected the work that was awarded and with which he represented Argentina in the Social Economy section of the Ghent Exposition of 1913. This work was published in 1916 under the title El trabajo femenino. In it she provides information on the treatment, wages and significant privations suffered by women workers. It will be astonishing to read that in 1912 she proposed pre and postnatal leave, breastfeeding places, equal pay obviating gender.