Background
Juanita Molina was born in 1893 in Managua, Nicaragua.
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Continuing her education, she attended the College of the Holy Names in Oakland, California and went on to earn both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Columbia University.
Career
She was one of the delegates to the Inter-American Commission of Women in 1930. After completing her primary and secondary education in Managua, she became Principal of the Municipal School. She returned to Nicaragua and in 1924 was appointed Assistant Secretary of Public Instruction.
In 1930, Molina was appointed by President José María Moncada as the Nicaraguan delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women.
The purpose of the delegation was to compile a report indicating how laws in the various countries of the Americas effected women"s nationality. The members for the 1930 Havana meeting were Flora de Oliveira Lima (Brazil), Aída Parada (Chile), Lydia Fernández (Costa Rica), Elena Mederos de González (Cuba), Gloria Moya de Jiménez (Dominican Republic), Irene de Peyré (Guatemala), Margarita Robles de Mendoza (Mexico), Juanita Molina de Fromen (Nicaragua), Clara González (Panama), Teresa Obregoso de Prevost (Peru), and Doris Stevens (United States of America).
As their governments provided no funding for their attendance, only the women from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, the United States were able to attend. She continued to fight from New York for the right to vote for Nicaraguan women until her untimely death.
Molina suffered from a series of health issues in 1934.
She underwent two appendix operations and had a mental break due to severe postpartum depression, which was revealed in a letter to Doris Stevens from Gunnar.
