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María Caviglia

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María Caviglia
National Deputy
In office
1952–1955
ConstituencyEntre Rios
Personal details
Born14 July 1895
Paraná, Argentina
Died2 August 1985(1985-08-02) (aged 90)
Paraná, Argentina

María Carmen Caviglia de Boeykens (14 July 1895 – 2 August 1985)[1] was an Argentine politician. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1951 as one of the first group of female parliamentarians in Argentina.

Biography

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Caviglia was born in Paraná in 1895 into a family of Italian immigrants.[1] She married Bendictus Alfonso Boykens at the age of 17 and went on to have five children.[1]

She became involved in politics at the age of 23 when she attended a women's rights conference organised by Alicia Moreau de Justo, and a few years later met politician Hipólito Yrigoyen, when he became godfather to one of her nephews.[1] She organised a women's suffrage centre in Paraná, which attracted the attention of Eva Perón. She was also involved in achieving a doubling of pay for teachers in poor rural areas and established centres for preventing Chagas disease.[2]

In the 1951 legislative elections she was a Peronist Party candidate in Entre Rios and was one of the 26 women elected to the Chamber of Deputies.[3] She remained in office until 1955, when her term was cut short by the Revolución Libertadora,[4] during which she was imprisoned.[1]

She died in Paraná in 1985 at the age of 90.[1]

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