Sara Justo

Justo was one of the leading figures of the women's rights movement in Argentina. She promoted the Association of Argentine University Women, which was founded in 1904 by Cecilia Grierson and Petrona Eyle.^[2][1]

In 1905, Justo founded the Feminist Center of Argentina with Julieta Lanteri and Elvira Rawson. At the International Congress of Free Thought in Buenos Aires in 1906, Spanish feminist politician Belén de Sárraga suggested that Justo organize a movement to secure women's political rights. In 1907, Justo founded the Women's Pro-Suffrage Committee with her future sister-in-law, Alicia Moreau, to "promote the intellectual, moral and material emancipation of women, whatever their social conditions".^[1] Justo had some ideological differences with Moreau, mostly over how to achieve suffrage. Justo preferred a staged approach while Moreau preferred universal suffrage.^[3]

With Lanteri, Alicia Moreau, Petrona Eley, and Rawson, Justo prepared a petition on women's rights. Socialist politician Alfredo Palacios presented the petition to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1911. It formed the basis for the Civil Rights Act of 1926.^[4]

Justo published numerous articles on feminism in periodicals such as the Buenos Aires newspaper El Diario. She also voiced her position on women's suffrage in 1909 at a conference on the feminist movement in Europe.^[3]

The Association of Argentine University Women organized the First International Women's Congress in 1910 with Justo serving as the treasurer.^[5][1] Justo was a delegate of the National Association of Teachers to the 1925 meeting of the International Congress of Social Economy and attended the Third International Women's Congress in 1928.^[6]

Justo died on 6 October 1941 in Buenos Aires.^[7][8]

• Cutolo, Vicente Osvaldo (1968). Nuevo diccionario biográfico argentino (1750-1930). Editorial Elche.
• Sosa de Newton, Lily (1972). Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas. Buenos Aires.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)