Josefa Toledo de Aguirre

Josefa Toledo de Aguirre or Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo (1866-1962), was a Nicaraguan feminist, writer and reform pedagogue. She is regarded as a pioneer for education of women in Nicaragua. She served as general director of education in 1924, the first female of her country to be given such an office.

She graduated as one of the first from Colegio de SeƱoritas, the first secular college to admit women in Nicaragua, alongside among others Carmela Noguera. She was a leader of the women's rights movement in Nicaragua. She published several works in this issue, and also founded papers in this issue, the first one being Revista Femenina Ilustrada (1918).

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