MI Tapestry

Silvia Hernández of
Santiago Mediano
Abogados, Madrid,
Spain, introduces us to
Clara Campoamor
Clara Campoamor
Clara Campoamor, born in Madrid in 1888, was a Spanish lawyer, politician, writer,
and feminist at the beginning of 20th century.
She has been considered the mother of the Spanish feminist movement. She
worked to improve conditions for women and fought for the equality of women’s
rights.
She defended women’s suffrage, the equality of children born out of marriage,
and the abolition of prostitution, and also promoted the first divorce law in Spain.
In the 1931 general elections, she became one of the first three women elected
to the Spanish Congress, where she was part of the team of 21 members who
drafted the Constitution of the Spanish Republic, in which she defended the
establishment of non-discrimination on the basis of sex, the legal status of
illegitimate children, divorce and universal suffrage.
Clara Campoamor entered history as the main architect of the inclusion of
women’s suffrage in Spain, included in the Constitution approved in 1931, which