Ana Figuero

Ana Figuero (June 19, 1907 - 1970)^{[lower-alpha 1][1][2][3]} was a Chilean educator, feminist, political activist,^[4] and government official.^[5] Born in Santiago in 1907, she was the daughter of Miguel Figueroa Rebolledo and Ana Gajardo Infante.^[6] From 1947 until 1949, she was the general supervisor for Chile's high school system.^[2] Figuero was the first women to chair a United Nations committee of the General Assembly; the first woman on the United Nations Security Council and United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs; and the first woman to hold the position of assistant director general of the International Labour Organization.^[1][3]

Notes

1. 1908 is also mentioned as year of birth; 1997 is also mentioned as year of death.

References

1. Kinnear 2011, p. 153.
2. Lubin & Winslow 1990, p. 201.
3. Bizzarro 2005, p. 288.
4. Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries 2005, p. 278.
5. Olsen 1994, p. 273.
6. Hilton 1947, p. 84.

Bibliography

• Bizzarro, Salvatore (20 April 2005). Historical Dictionary of Chile. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6542-6.
• Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries (2005). The Riverside Dictionary of Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-618-49337-9.
• Hilton, Ronald (1947). Who's Who in Latin America: Part IV, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0737-4.
• Kinnear, Karen L. (22 July 2011). Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-426-9.
• Lubin, Carol Riegelman; Winslow, Anne (1990). Social Justice for Women: The International Labor Organization and Women. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1062-7.
• Olsen, Kirstin (1 January 1994). Chronology of Women's History. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6.