The first female students attended this university by the end of the 19th Century. Over 250 years, students of the university were only male and usually belonged to upper-class families. In 1884, Angela Sertini de Camponovo was the first woman to graduate with her degree of midwife in the School of Medicine.
The first group of women graduated mostly from branches of medical studies, such as midwives and nurses. Two decades later, we have the first female chemists and doctors in medicine and surgery. In the 1920’s, Mercedes Orgaz, the first Notary, and Elisa Ferreyra de Videla, the first lawyer, graduated from the School of Law.
In the 1930’s women entered the long male-dominated fields of architecture and civil engineering. We also see the first female professors and translators of different languages such as French, English, German and Italian.
In the 1940´s, a time when women acquired political rights, the first females graduated with degrees of licence and doctor of philosophy, and they were joined later by female public accountants, geologists and doctors of natural sciences.