Women in the Field of Science and Sport

Women in the Field of Science and Sport

Science

Encarnación Amoranto Alzona

(1895-2001)

Was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator and suffragist. The first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph.D. She was conferred in 1985 the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines.

Encarnacion Alzona (first female historian and woman to earn PhD), Natividad Almeda-López (first female lawyer), Mercedes Raffiñan Villarosa (first woman licensed architect), Emerita Quito (pioneer Filipina philosopher)

Maria Ylagan Orosa

(November 29, 1892 – February 13, 1945)

Was a food technologist, pharmaceutical chemist, humanitarian, and war

heroine during World War II. Born in Taal, Batangas and an Orosa Palayok

Fe del Mundo (doctor who founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and the first woman to study at Harvard Medical School), Maria Ylagan Orosa (inventor and food scientist), Honoria Acosta-Sison (first Filipino woman medical doctor), Luz Oliveros-Belardo (pharmaceutical chemist, National Scientist)

First Filipino woman medical doctor

Sport

Hidilyn Diaz

Hidilyn Diaz, Filipino weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist.

Lydia de Vega

Lydia de Vega, “Asia’s fastest woman in the 1980s”

Hidilyn Diaz (first Filipina to win the Olympic Gold medal in weightlifting), Lydia de Vega (considered Asia’s fastest woman in the 1980s), Elma Muros-Posadas, Olivia Bong Coo

UP Women’s Football Team

UP Women’s Football Team

UP PEP Squad Flyer

UP Softball Night Training

Photo by: Eloisa May P. Hernandez

From the book: Review of Women