Hilda Nélida Castañeira de Baccaro (19 November 1926 – 4 November 2007) was an Argentine politician. She was elected to the Senate in 1951 as one of the first group of female parliamentarians in Argentina.
Hilda Nélida Castañeira
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| National Senator | |
| In office 1952–1955 | |
| Constituency | Santa Fe |
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| Born | 19 November 1926 Rosario, Argentina |
| Died | 4 November 2007(2007-11-04) (aged 80) |
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Castañeira was born in Rosario in 1926.[1] She studied at the Nuestra Señora del Huerto college in Rosario and became a primary school teacher in Ibarlucea. She later taught in Rosario and at the National Boys College.[1] In 1945 she founded the Martín Fierro Institute for the Teaching of Folk Arts and Customs and began working at the Port of Rosario as secretary of the customs administrator.[1]
In 1949 Castañeira was a founder member of the Female Peronist Party. Two years later in the 1951 legislative elections, she was one of six women elected to the Senate.[2] She was the first woman to speak in the Senate,[1] and became president of the Labour Committee and secretary of the External Relations Committee.[3] She remained in office until 1955 when her term was ended early by the Revolución Libertadora.[1]
She later became political secretary of the women's branch of the Peronist Party and served as a city councillor in Buenos Aires from 1973 to 1976.[1] She died in November 2007.[4]