Margarita Chorné y Salazar, the First Woman in Latin America with a University Degree
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Martha Diaz de Kuri rescues the biography of Margarita Chorné y Salazar, the first woman in Latin America to get a university diploma. Chorné was ahead of her time. She was the second of 5 bother born to Dentist Agustín Chorné and Paz Salazar in 1864. Following her father's and older brother's steps, she acquired a passion for dentistry (called odontology in those times). After passing her final exam she obtained her dentistry surgeon degree, becoming the first woman in Latin America to posses a degree. She married at 40 and had a son that later made her grandmother with tow daughters. When was always surrounded by the support and care of her loved ones and died at 98 years of age.
Martha Diaz de Kuri
(México, 1943) es cirujana dentista y licenciada en Historia. Es jefa del Departamento de Historia de la Facultad de Odontología de la UNAM.Ha publicado, entre otros: Historia del Hospital General de México (1994); El nacimiento de una profesión: la odontología en el siglo XIX en México (1994); De Líbano a México: crónica de un pueblo emigrante (con Lourdes Macluf, 1995) y Margarita Chorné y Salazar: la primera mujer titulada en América Latina (1998), por el que recibió el Premio DEMAC de biografía.
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Margarita Chorné y Salazar, the First Woman in Latin America with a University Degree - Martha Diaz de Kuri
Margarita Chorné y Salazar
The First Woman in Latin America with a University Degree
By Martha Díaz de Kuri
1997-1998 DEMAC Awards
Mexico, 2016
Printed editions, Mexico, 1998, 2000 and 2009.
First Spanish eBook edition, Mexico, 2015
First English eBook edition, Mexico, 2016
Margarita Chorné y Salazar, the first Woman in Latin America with a University Degree, by
Martha Díaz de Kuri
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue
The First One
Women of the 19th Century
Maids, Workers, Employees or Seamstresses
The Panorama Broadens
The Chorné’s Family
Little Margarita
Her Pastimes
The Dentistry
The Guild Matures
The Long-Awaited Day
Margarita’s Dental Clinic
Loves and Heartbreaks
An Epiphany’s Day Present
The Recognition
The Difficult Years
Retirement
Sources
Interviews
Endnotes
PROLOGUE
Ten years after the publication of our Margarita Chorné y Salazar’s biography, the personage has taken on greater relevance as instigator of the process incorporating women into Mexico’s professional life. Unintentionally, she became the spearhead of the feminine gender struggle for obtaining professional equity. During the whole 19th century, 133 men and only 3 women obtained their dental surgeon degree. Moreover, Margarita Chorné y Salazar was the first woman who practiced a profession in Latin America (1886). Three years after her, Cleotilde Leonida Castañeda would also graduate, and likewise Mónica Correa in 1896, although their stories have not yet been retrieved.
Margarita Chorné experienced really significant political and social events. She was born during Maximilian’s emperorship. As most of Mexico City’s wealthy families, the Chornés were in favor of General Porfirio Díaz. Margarita saw with distrust the first years of hostilities. Later, when she married Antonio Dromundo, a lawyer close to the Zapatista movement, Margarita figured out the political process and social changes, and it is said—although we don’t have evidence corroborating it—that as a dentist doctor Chorné took care of President Francisco I. Madero, as well as of several Generals of the Revolution. When she got divorced, and by now lacking her father’s protection, Margarita had to overcome alone the Mexican Revolution subsequent economic crisis, but thanks to her professional career she was able to provide for her son, Baltasar Dromundo Chorné, who would later become one of the ideologists of the student movement that would ultimately achieve the university autonomy.
Since 1904, when the first dental school was created in our country, the state of affairs began to be more favorable for women wanting to devote themselves to this profession. Clara Rosas—a young woman from Tenosique, Tabasco, who had won a scholarship for obtaining the best average grade of her school—enrolled on the second generation (1907) of this school that over time would become the Faculty of Dentistry of the UNAM¹. Doctor Rosas would become the country’s first female dentistry professor. During the 1920’s, the number of female dentistry students increased, but, as in all the university careers, it remained being very low compared to that of men. Nonetheless, the female gender continued making its way in this profession, and during the 1940’s it already attained slightly more than 30% of the student body.
During the next decades, the number of female dental students kept on increasing, and during the 1970s, due to the creation of private dental schools and UNAM’s Iztacala and Zaragoza campuses, finally the number of women exceeded that of men. Currently, women’s share fluctuates between 60 and 70% in private and public dentistry schools of Mexico City and the other States of the Republic.
The female gender, which began its presence in dentistry with Margarita Chorné y Salazar’s degree, has also been increasing its participation in the