The first female graduates of the University of Cartagena: between professionalization, teaching and the administration of the university (1920-1989)

Abstract

This article is part of a broader research on the history of the higher education of women in the University of Cartagena, not only to professionalize, but to assume administrative roles during the period 1920 to 1989. This study is a historical analysis of the professional life of Paulina Beregoff,the first woman who earned a degree from the University of Cartagena; the collective experiences of professionalization of the coastal women who entered behind her, and the rectory of Beatriz Bechara of Borge, as being the only one of this genre, until today, in the oldest university in the colombian Caribbean. 

It will seek to show, from the revision of primary documentary and oral sources of local and regional files, that the presence of women in this University cloister represented the transit of a traditionally male University as a University’s gender, in which women were able to generate new representations toward modernity within a transitional society.