Career
She founded the Liceo Fanning (1881), a women"s college, where she implemented her educational approaches. A collection of her articles, which had been published in El Comercio, were compiled in a booklet entitled Female Education (1898). lieutenant was highly critical about women"s education, which till then, was exclusively geared to prepare for marriage and motherhood.
Gonzalez rejected this type of curriculum, promoting in its place the study of music, writing and mathematics as broader preparation with a practical connotation.
She favored job training which would provide a source of income, allowing women to emancipate themselves from dependence on a husband. At lower levels, she suggested a more practical life skills education to learn a trade.
On another level, she described a more enlightened education, within scientific and philosophical disciplines. Her views were recognized as a precursor to modern educational programs for women.