Carolina Muzzilli

Carolina Muzzilli (also Muzilli, 17 November 1889 – 23 March 1917) was an Argentine industrial researcher and social activist of Italian descent. She was the first woman to be made an official of Argentina's National Department of Employment. She was a notable militant feminist. Muzzilli served as director of the Women's Tribune , a feminist journal. In her work for the Women's Tribune, she took active part in the education programmes for the workers of cigar and textile industries in particular, as the health conditions prevailing in these industries were deplorable; she projected this as a class conflict. In 1912, she took up the cause of women (in the age group of 12 to 50) who were working in the laundry of “La Higiénica” in poor conditions, where workers often fainted in the ironing section of the laundry due to excessive heat during summer. The inspectors, instead of helping them, would count the duration the workers fainted and insist that the workers make good the “lost time during her workday.” Muzzilli's lament was that the majority of management who opposed the claims of the workers were “militant Catholics, accustomed to wearing the papal cloak in processions."

In 1913, Muzzilli wrote the award-winning "El trabajo femenino", regarding the conditions faced by working women. In the same year, she participated in the Congress for the Protection of Childhood, and three years later, she campaigned for the Socialist Party. She wrote a number of articles in the Vanguard in 1917. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 27, in 1917.