Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón

Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón (18 August 1898 – 2 June 1986) was a Mexican diplomat, cabinet minister, minister plenipotentiary, writer, and the first female member of a presidential cabinet. She distinguished herself for fighting for women rights including her efforts to secure women's voting rights in 1952.

González Caballero studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She was the founder and chair of the Club Internacional de Mujeres (1932) and the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres (1937). She also founded the Teatro de Masas. She was associated with the journal Hogar and was a columnist for Excélsior. At the founding of the United Nations she served as delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since 2012, her remains rest in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres in Mexico City.

Biography Amalia González Caballero was born on 18 August 1898 in the San Jerónimo neighborhood of Santander Jiménez, located in the municipality of Jiménez, Tamaulipas, to Vicente González Garcilazo and María Caballero Garza. She completed primary school in Padilla, Tamaulipas, and then moved to Ciudad Victoria where she attended the Teachers' Normal School and graduated with teaching credentials. Her family moved to Mexico City and González continued her education at the School of Higher Studies and the National Conservatory of Music. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, She founded the Teatro de Masas both of which were organized to help secure suffrage for Mexican women.

In 1945, she served on the delegation that went to San Francisco to develop the Charter of the United Nations and worked for securing women's right to vote, which was finally obtained in 1952 In 2012, her remains were interred at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons.

Selected works González Caballero was an accomplished essayist and playwright.

Essays Cuatro estancias poéticas (1964) Viena, sitial de la música de todos los tiempos

Drama Cuando las hojas caen (1929) Cubos de Noria ( 1934) Coqueta (1945) Bajo el mismo techo (1945) Peligro - Deshielo (1963) La verdad escondida (1963)