Delia Matte Pérez

Delia Matte Pérez was a Chilean feminist in the early 20th century. She was born into a notable aristocratic family, the daughter of Domingo Matte Messiah, merchant and banker, and Rosalia Perez Vargas. She married Salvador Izquierdo and had five children: Salvador, Raul, Delia, Rachel and Augusto. She cofounded Club de Señoras ("Ladies' Club") in 1916 with Iris and Luisa Lynch. It initiated the struggle for the emancipation of women and created the first bill to grant citizenship rights to Chilean women. She was the sister of Claudio Matte, Augusto Matte, and Ricardo Matte Pérez. She defended different types of feminism, feminism that "awakens in the woman the right to study... the right to draw on all the skills that make an effective culture and also the right to establish personality, a feminism that is almost equivalent to the simple and important concept of being, because who is not perceived individually different between the human community has no right to be".