Rita Lobato

Rita Lobato Velho Lopes (June 7, 1866 in Rio Grande – January 6, 1954 in Rio Pardo) was the first woman to earn a degree in Brazil to practice medicine. She was the second Brazilian woman physician, following Maria Augusta Generoso Estrela, who earned a degree from the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women in 1881.[1] Lobato received her degree in 1887 from a school in Bahia. Her initial enrollment caused debate, with some people arguing that women had brains too small to understand medicine or that a female doctor would never find a husband, although others were in favor of her entrance and the Echo das Damas saw her as an example for Brazilian girls. She did, in fact, marry and practised medicine for several years.[2]

Rita Lobato
Rita Lobato on a 1967 stamp

References
  1. De Luca, Leonora; Assis De Luca, João Bosco (May–August 2003). "Marie Rennotte, pedagoga e médica: subsidies para um estudo historico-biográfico e medico-social" [Marie Rennotte, educator and medical doctor: elements for a historical and biographical, social and medical study] (PDF). História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: SciELO. 10 (2): 708. doi:10.1590/S0104-59702003000200010. ISSN 0104-5970. Retrieved 12 July 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) CS1 maint: date format (link)
  2. June Edith Hahner (1990) Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850–1940, Duke University Press, pp. 62–63.
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