Las carreras profesionales de las primeras universitarias Españolas (1910-1936)

Abstract

The article focuses on the increasing presence of Spanish women in the professional world as a result of free access to the University (1910). Methodologically, it is a historiographical study comparing the different trends in the scientific literature on the subject. The results explain the existence of two important moments in time. In the first (20s), women worked in medical specialties (preferably gynecology, pediatrics or ophthalmology) and began to hold posts in the public sector: in archives, libraries and high schools. In the second (30s), women managed to work in scientific research and the professional practice of journalism, law and politics. The scientific debate centers on how these goals were achieved in the social, political and cultural context of those years, concluding that it was a result of the women’s own efforts with support from social trends outside feminism.