Carlota Pereira de Queirós

Carlota Pereira de QueirósEfn|Also spelled "Queiroz".

Biography Carlota Pereira de Queirós was born on 13 February 1892, in the city of São Paulo. She was the daughter of José Pereira de Queiroz and Maria Vicentina de Azevedo Pereira de Queiroz. She graduated from the in 1926, with the thesis "Estudos sobre o Câncer" (Studies on Cancer). An intern in the third chair of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and head of the Pediatric Clinical Laboratory (1928), she was an assistant to Professor Pinheiro Cintra. She was commissioned by the government of São Paulo in 1929 to study Infant Dietetics in medical centers in Europe.

During the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 in São Paulo, she organized and led a group of 700 women to assist the wounded.

Political career

On 3 May 1933, the first election in which women officially participated as voters and candidates throughout Brazil to choose deputies for the National Constituent Assembly, Carlota was one of 19 female candidates among Alzira Reis Vieira Ferreira, Anna Vieira Cesar, Bertha Lutz, Edith Mendes da Gama e Abreu, Catharina Valentim Santanna, Edith Dinorah da Costa Braga, Edwiges Sá Pereira, Georgina de Araujo Azevedo Lima, Ilka Labarthe, Julitta Monteiro Soares da Gama, Leolinda de Figueiredo Daltro, Lucília Wilson Coelho de Souza, Lydia de Oliveira, Maria Pereira das Neves, Maria Rita Burnier Pessoa de Mello Coelho, Martha de Hollanda Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Natercia da Cunha Silveira, Theresa Rabello de Macedo, and Almerinda Farias Gama.

The Chamber of Deputies, through the Commission for the Defense of Women's Rights, established the Carlota Pereira de Queirós Woman-Citizen Diploma Award, which aims to honor women "whose work or actions have contributed to the full exercise of citizenship, in the defense of women's rights and gender issues in Brazil."