Bertha LUTZ, Brazilian scientist, feminist;. member committee on labor conditions of women of the International Bureau of the League of Nations; Member (correspondent): American Museum of Natural History. Decorations from Belgium and German governments, for services to agriculture.
Background
LUTZ, Bertha was born on August 2, 1894 in Sao Paulo. Daughter of Dr. Adolpho Lutz, who was instrumental in eradicating yellow fever in Sao Paulo, and introduced the study of tropical medicine in Brazil, and of Amy Fowler Lutz, who served in Hawaii as voluntary nurse to lepers and launched the first free school for neglected boys in Brazil.
Education
Educated faculty of science, University de Paris, and law school, University do Brasil.
Career
Successfully competed for the appointment of secretary of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, being the second woman to occupy a responsible post in government service. With the aid of a number of congressmen (Senator Adolpho Gordo, Deputies Justo Chermont and Juvenal Lamartine) launched the first organized women's movement in Brazil. Represented Brazil at the Pan-American Conference of Women held at Baltimore under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters (1922).
Launched the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women (1922). (This organization now has branches in most of the states and was largely instrumental in securing equal suffrage in 1933.) Represented Brazil at the International Conference of Women in Rome (1923) and in Berlin (1929), and at the Pan-American Conference of Women in Washington (1925). Member of the Brazilian delegation to the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (December, 1933).
Appointed as representative of Brazilian women to the committee charged with the drafting of the project of a new constitution of Brazil (1932). President of the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women. Member of the committee on Labor Conditions of Women of the International Bureau of the League of Nations.
Member of the Legal Section of the International Office for the Protection of Nature. Held fellowship of the Carnegie Foundation for the study of the educational methods of American museums (1932). Corresponding member of the American Museum of Natural History.
Decorated by the Belgian and German governments for services to agriculture (1924 and 1931).
Membership
Member committee on labor conditions of women of the International Bureau of the League of Nations. Member (correspondent): American Museum of Natural History. Decorations from Belgium and German governments, for services to agriculture.