But many times she not only supports him, but also matches him and even surpasses him.
And there was a case, here in Argentina, of a married couple, in which both were prominent figures as doctors -they were both- as thinkers and as top-level political figures.
I am alluding to Juan B. Justo and Alicia Moreau de Justo.
Dr. Justo married her when she was 55 years old.
He was 20 years older than his wife.
He was a professor of Surgical Clinic, founder of the newspaper “La Vanguardia” and also a national deputy and senator.
She was not in saga in terms of achievements.
And he outlived him by almost 60 years, because he was much younger and because he managed to live more than a hundred years.
Dr. Alicia Moreau was born in London, because her father, French, had had to emigrate from his homeland, for being a man of ideals who had led a just workers’ rebellion in Paris.
A few years later in 1890, his parents had settled in Buenos Aires.
The girl Alicia –only 5 years old- attended primary school here and later graduated as a teacher.
He used to say that in secondary school -Normal No. 1-, he had Hipólito Yrigoyen as a teacher, who taught philosophy, before being President of the Republic.
Years later, she recounted that she often disagreed with Dr. Yrigoyen in class, in some of his assessments and that he firmly refuted her, although always with respect.
Dr. Hipólito Yrigoyen, in one of his books, wrote years later that she had been the most brilliant student he had in his many years as a teacher.
In 1907, at the age of 21, the future doctor entered the Faculty of Medicine.
She was one of the first six women who registered in our country to study that career.
The first to graduate was Dr. Cecilia Grierson.
It was a time when society did not look favorably on university women.
It was received six years later with a diploma of honor.
In addition to practicing his profession and dabbling in politics -in socialism specifically-, he also practiced journalism in a magazine directed by Enrique del Valle Iberlucea, who was the first socialist senator in America.
At the age of 35, she founded the National Women’s Union, to fight for the rights of women, still highly relegated. And she managed to improve women’s working conditions.
The action of that entity had a decisive influence on the legislators, to sanction several laws for the recognition of women’s rights: the protection of women’s work and their right to vote, which crystallized years later.
She had even elaborated in 1932, a bill for women’s suffrage that was presented by the deputy Mario Bravo, but that did not prosper at that time, but later, in 1947 fifteen years later.
At the age of 71, she was appointed director of the newspaper “La Vanguardia” which at that time had some 90,000 copies.
And I close this note with a brief anecdote.
When she directed “La Vanguardia” there was a journalist who dealt with foreign stories and the police section.
As he noticed his ability, he commissioned him to write an editorial note, in which an attitude of radical legislators in Congress was criticized.
The journalist told him:
-“Excuse me, Dr. I can’t do it.”
-“Don’t you dare?” Dr. Justo told him.
-“It’s not that. It is that I am a radical affiliate ”.
From that moment, in addition to congratulating him on his intellectual honesty, he improved his position in the newspaper, placing him in the editorial section.
That was Dr. Alicia Moreau de Justo, a true example of understanding and nobility.
And a final aphorism for this woman, who by having more values, more demanded of herself…
“Many can go with the flow. Few… face it.”
Source: Ambito
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