Hilda Nélida Castañeira de Vaccaro

Hilda Nélida Castañeira de Baccaro (19 November 1926 – 4 November 2007) was an Argentine politician. She was elected to the Senate in 1951 as one of the first group of female parliamentarians in Argentina.

Biography Castañeira was born in Rosario in 1926. She studied at the Nuestra Señora del Huerto college in Rosario and became a primary school teacher in Ibarlucea. She later taught in Rosario and at the National Boys College. She was the first woman to speak in the Senate, She remained in office until 1955 when her term was ended early by the Revolución Libertadora.