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.[1] 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.[2] 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 [3] saw her as an example for Brazilian girls. She did, in fact, marry and practised medicine for several years.[4]

Rita Lobato
Rita Lobato on a 1967 stamp

References
  1. "What Is the Practice of Medicine? By Harry B. Hutchins University of Michigan Law School 1907)".
  2. 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]. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos (in Portuguese). 10 (2): 708. doi:10.1590/S0104-59702003000200010.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. "ECHO DAS DAMAS - Organ Dedicated to Women's Interests On Periodicals Catalog".
  4. 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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