Carolina Beatriz Ângelo

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Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
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Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
Born (1878-04-06)6 April 1878
Guarda, Portugal
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Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality Portuguese
Education Medical School Lisbon
Occupation Physician
Known for Voting in 1911, the first woman in Portugal to do so
Spouse(s) Januario Barreto (1902-1910)
Children Maria Emília
Parent(s) Emília Clementina de Castro Barreto
Viriato António Ângelo
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Carolina Beatriz Ângelo (16 April 1878 – 3 October 1911) was a Portuguese physician and the first woman to vote in Portugal.

Life

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo was a medical doctor practising in Lisbon. She was a feminist and suffragette who participated in multiple women's associations. She was a leader of the Portuguese Women's Republican League and, in 1911, she and Adelaide Cabete founded the Portuguese Association of Feminist Propaganda (Associação de Propaganda Feminista) of which Ana de Castro Osório became the head.[1][2]

Vote

On May 28, 1911 Ângelo cast her vote to elect representatives to the Constituent National Assembly in 1911 in the first elections after the fall of the monarchy.[3] She used the ambiguity of the law, which granted the right to vote to literate head-of-households over 21, to cast her vote.[4][3] As a widow and the mother of a daughter, she was a head-of-household. Shortly thereafter, on July 3, 1913, a law was passed to specify the right to vote was only for male citizens, literate and over 21.[4] Her act was widely reported on throughout Portugal and among feminist associations in other countries.[5][6]

Tribute

On May 28, 2021, Google celebrated her with a Google Doodle.[7]

Notes

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